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Journey to the Homeland Tour 2007 Photos
Journey to the Homeland Tour
North Dakota State University Library, Fargo
Visiting the village, the church and cemetery in former German village of Bergdorf, today Kolosova, Trans-Dnjestr Republic, Moldova, May, 2007
Photographs by Arsen Dyogot, Ukraine
Grave of Clifford C. Plumb, d. 1941, Sarah Levis Plumb, d. 1938, Henry C. Plumb, 1969 and Rosalie Plumb, d. 1989, Miner Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut
The well-fed cemetery fat cat does a 'Garfield' impression and sleeps in the sun. There was a cheeky Magpie just out of shot to the right. No-one seemed bothered with the others.
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How close do you go for a nature shot? This was the photographic equivalent of a bayonet charge. This wild fox left fox snot on the front of my lens while checking out if it was good to eat.
It lives in the City of London Cemetery, Aldersbrook Road and is so tame it will take food from your hand. I'd just given him/her some of my toast when it sidled up and stuck its nose on the front of my camera to check it out.
Ahhhh!
Cemetery for the lost town of Kane, Wyoming which was flooded out with the building of the Yellowtail dam in Southern Montana. The cemetery fortunately sat uphill far enough to survive.
Hebrew Cemetery (Oakdale)
Lillie T. Weil (1866-1942);
Wife of I. Henry Weil.
Wilmington, North Carolina
USA
N34 14.753'
W077 55.923'
JCEAA ID: C130517
22 November 2013
Hebrew Cemetery is located inside Oakdale Cemetery.
This tombstone is of a gondolier who passed away. If you look close, you'll see a small gondola on the tomb. Also, each grave has a photo of the deceased along with small momentos, flowers, etc.
We saw many groupings of tombs: nuns were buried together in the same area, priests, mariners, and noble people. It was interesting to see the groupings.
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A terrifying house of terror where zombies lurk in the mist, the savagely hungry undead roam the halls through a maze, spiders, bats, rats, ghosts loom overhead and everywhere, and screams can be heard around every corner. Have yourself a haunting good time, oh and please wipe your feet when you exit, you would hate to leave any evidence pointing back to you!! Open all day until Halloween. Bring your friends, if you dare! Turn up your sounds!
You can visit our Nighmare Store for all your halloween decorating needs!
Donations always welcomed at our annual Haunted House!
After your heart comes back to a more normal beat use the teleport back to the Misty Lane Shadows dance floor and enjoy a romantic time dancing. You can select your own music.
Please have a look around our lovely DreamScape Islands!
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Woodhaven and Yellowstone, Queens
The Remsen Cemetery is a tangible reminder of the colonial past of this section of Queens. Typical of the small private cemeteries that were favored by early eettlers, it commemorates one of New York's earliest families and the role it played in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. The plot has been preserved and maintained by various local organizations and citiiins within the community.
The Remsen family ancestors immigrated to America in the 17th century from nor*hern Germany and eventually settled in Queens County. The founding father of th. clan in America was Rem Jansen Van der Beeck; his sons adopted the surname Remset, One son, Abraham Remsen,settled at Hempstead Swamp, as this area of Queens County was then called, and had a son named Jeromus. Jeromus lived on the paternal farm and had a son, also named Jeromus, born on November 22, 1735. It is not known if the younger Jeromus grew up to live on or simply near the family homestead. The younger Jercmus served during the French and Indian War of 1757 and became active in Whig politics prior to the Revolutionary War.
After the Continental Congress of 1774 was established the inhabitants of New Towne (Newtown) assembled at the request of Jarwmus Rempen and appointed a committee to insure adherence to congressional measures within the limits of the town. Jeroraus Remsen was a member and clerk of the county committee. Later he was appointed colonel over half the militia of Kings and Queens counties and joined forces under the brigade of General Greene in Brooklyn. These American forces were routed at the Battle of Long Island and after thei ' retreat Colonel Remsen was forced to flee to safety in New Jersey, where he resided until the war's end. Jeromus had married Ann(a), daughter of Cornelius Rapelje, on April 31, 1768, She bore him seven children of whom only three sons survived infancy. Jeromus died in 1790 while Anna lived until 1816.
The original cemetery lay solely within the property of the Remsen family, and it is typical of the private family cemeteries favored by New York's colonial settlers. In a February 23, 1887 article in a Kings County newspaper the cemetery was described as lying between the old Remsen house and the Suydam homestead, neither of which survive. This small cemetery is believed to have been used from the mid- 18th through the 19th centuries for Remsen family members. The oldest known grave is that of Jeromus Remsen, from 1790. In a survey of 1925, the graves and grave-stones of eight Remsen family members were identified.
These included those of Colonel Jeromus Remsen, his wife Ann(a) Remsen, a Jeromus Remsen -who vas probably their son, three Remsen children, a Bridget Remsen, and Major Abraham Rewsian, who is described as the colonel's brother. Presently the cemetery features a group of three, brownstone gravestones near Alderton Avenue, formerly Orville Stryat. (the two Jeromus Remsens and Anna Remscrj), two along the northwesterly perimeter (Jerome Remsen and Ann Elizabeth Remsen), and the remnants of another tombstone along the southern property line (Bridget Remsen). These tombstones date from 1790 through 1819. Recently, commemorative gravestones have been erected by the Veterans Administration in honor of Col. Remsen, Major Abraham Remsen, and their two brothers Aert Remsen and Garrett Remsen, who were also Revolutionary War officers. A World War I memorial, honoring the community's service in that war, occupies the center of the cemetery. It consists of two doughboy statues flanking a flagpole.
The Remsen cemetery remains an important element in the community commemorating an early New York family and their contributions to our heritage.
- From the 1981 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Placerville received its name because of placer mining in the vicinity. The ghost town is located 17 miles East of Horseshoe Bend. The townsite was selected December 1, 1862; and by December 16 there were 6 cabins in the camp. By the early summer of 1863, the town had 300 buildings and a population of 5,000.
Originally constructed as "Green Hill Cemetery," this 32-acre expanse of hilly terrain and ancient cedar trees has many stories to reveal. Cedar Hill Cemetery (1802) is an official site of the Virginia Civil War Trails prorgram as it is the final resting place for many Confederate Generals and soldiers
May, 2008.The American cemetery in Normandy, France, is located on a cliff overlooking Omaha Beach (one of the landing beaches of the Normandy Invasion) and the English Channel. It covers 70 ha (172 acres), and contains the remains of 9,387 American military dead, most of whom were killed during the invasion of Normandy and ensuing military operations in World War II. The graves face westward, towards the United States. Read more about the cemetery here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_American_Cemetery_and_Memo...
April 12, 2015 - For over 300 years this was the only burial ground permitted for Jews in Prague. The last burial occurred in 1787. It is thought that over 100,000 people were laid to rest here, due to lack of space bodies were buried one on top of the other and records indicate there are up to twelve layers.
Historic cemetery located in the "ghost town" of Bodie State Park in Bodie, California.
Infrared photograph post processed in High Dynamic Range with Paint Shop Pro editing software.
Location: Bodie State Historical Park, Bodie, CA
Website: www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=509
Camera: Panasonic ZS8 (converted to IR)
Photographer: Dan Kacir
Originally constructed as "Green Hill Cemetery," this 32-acre expanse of hilly terrain and ancient cedar trees has many stories to reveal. Cedar Hill Cemetery (1802) is an official site of the Virginia Civil War Trails prorgram as it is the final resting place for many Confederate Generals and soldiers
Hebrew Cemetery
Esther Aronheim 1835-1879.
Charlottesville, Virginia
USA
N38 1.478
W78 29.100
JCEAA ID: C040092
20 March 2004
Across 1st Street from Oakwood Cemetery
The cemetery is located on the former site of Bonaventure Plantation, originally owned by Colonel John Mullryne. On March 10, 1846, Commodore Josiah Tattnall III sold the 600-acre (2.4 km2) plantation and its private cemetery to Peter Wiltberger. The first burials took place in 1850, and three years later, Peter Wiltberger himself was entombed in a family vault.
Major William H. Wiltberger, the son of Peter, formed the Evergreen Cemetery Company on June 12, 1868. On July 7, 1907, the City of Savannah purchased the Evergreen Cemetery Company, making the cemetery public and changing the name to Bonaventure Cemetery.
In 1867 John Muir began his Thousand Mile Walk to Florida and the Gulf. In October he sojourned for six days and nights in the Bonaventure cemetery, sleeping upon graves overnight, this being the safest and cheapest accommodation that he could find while he waited for money to be expressed from home. He found the cemetery even then breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring and wrote a lengthy chapter upon it, "Camping in the Tombs."
"Part of the grounds was cultivated and planted with live-oak (Quercus virginiana), about a hundred years ago, by a wealthy gentleman who had his country residence here But much the greater part is undisturbed. Even those spots which are disordered by art, Nature is ever at work to reclaim, and to make them look as if the foot of man had never known them. Only a small plot of ground is occupied with graves and the old mansion is in ruins.
The most conspicuous glory of Bonaventure is its noble avenue of live-oaks. They are the most magnificent, planted trees I have ever seen, about fifty feet high and perhaps three or four feet in diameter, with broad spreading leafy heads. The main branches reach out horizontally until they come together over the driveway, embowering it throughout its entire length, while each branch is adorned like a garden with ferns, flowers, grasses, and dwarf palmettos.
But of all the plants of these curious tree-gardens the most striking and characteristic is the so-called Long Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). It drapes all the branches from top to bottom, hanging in long silvery-gray skeins, reaching a length of not less than eight or ten feet, and when slowly waving in the wind they produce a solemn funereal effect singularly impressive.
There are also thousands of smaller trees and clustered bushes, covered almost from sight in the glorious brightness of their own light. The place is half surrounded by the salt marshes and islands of the river, their reeds and sedges making a delightful fringe. Many bald eagles roost among the trees along the side of the marsh. Their screams are heard every morning, joined with the noise of crows and the songs of countless warblers, hidden deep in their dwellings of leafy bowers. Large flocks of butterflies, flies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. The whole place seems like a center of life. The dead do not reign there alone.
Bonaventure to me is one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met. I was fresh from the Western prairies, the garden-like openings of Wisconsin, the beech and maple and oak woods of Indiana and Kentucky, the dark mysterious Savannah cypress forests; but never since I was allowed to walk the woods have I found so impressive a company of trees as the tillandsia-draped oaks of Bonaventure.
I gazed awe-stricken as one new-arrived from another world. Bonaventure is called a graveyard, a town of the dead, but the few graves are powerless in such a depth of life. The rippling of living waters, the song of birds, the joyous confidence of flowers, the calm, undisturbable grandeur of the oaks, mark this place of graves as one of the Lord’s most favored abodes of life and light."
- "Camping in the Tombs," from A Thousand Mile Walk
Greenwich Cemetery became an addition to Bonaventure in 1933.