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Erie Cemetery, PA.
Pretty fascinated with the idea of going to local "haunted" areas and taking pictures of the stuff that we're all talking about.
The Luxembourg American Cemetery is a World War II cemetery. Most of those buried here died during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and 1945.
Carrion crow (Corvus corone) in Brompton Cemetery during the Month of the Dead
Brompton Cemetery is one of the 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries, formed after an act of Parliament for the interment of the dead.
The site proposed for this cemetery was surrounded by fields and market gardens and was bordered to the west by the Kensington Canal. The majority of the land, which belonged to Lord Kensington, was acquired by August 1839. An additional c 2ha on the south side was bought from the Equitable Gas Company. The land, formerly the site of brickworks and market gardens, was flat and lacked the varied topography of Highgate (qv) and Nunhead (qv) Cemeteries. It was described as 'having no natural attraction whatever ... not a tree and scarcely a shrub adorn the place'...in 1838 the Board of Directors decided to hold a public competition. This was won by Benjamin Baud (1807-75)...To overcome the constraints of the site his scheme relied on architectural drama for its impact. Brompton was a classical conception with dramatic vistas and spaces, in a rural setting...Building work started in 1839 and the cemetery was consecrated in June 1840, the first burial taking place a few weeks later. The building works and the landscaping were far from complete however and the North Lodge had to be used as a temporary chapel, the Anglian Chapel being eventually completed in 1842. Baud's extravagant ideas and a slow initial uptake of burial plots appears to have led the directors into financial difficulties. Baud's designs were therefore altered, building specifications were skimped, and serious faults appeared in the catacombs; in 1843 Baud was dismissed.
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One of the elder headstones in the Princeton Cemetery. I'd tried photographing it on an overcast day, and the diffuse light made it impossible to make out the inscription.
The Congressional Cemetery or Washington Parish Burial Ground is a historic yet active cemetery located at 1801 E Street, SE, in Washington, D.C., on the west bank of the Anacostia River.
Historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is the final resting place of a number of notable people including Washington Irving, William Chrysley, Harry & Leona Helmsley. I was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Woodruff family grave, including Samuel E. Woodruff, d. 1863 and Mina C. Boyer Woodruff, d. 1862, Maple Cemetery, Berlin, Connecticut
In the inner oval of the GAR circle at Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Private Samuel C. Upwright of the 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. The 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery was organized at Philadelphia on January 8th, 1862 and mustered out on January 29, 1866 at City Point, Virginia. They were discharged at Philadelphia on February 16, 1866. They were at Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Fair Oaks, and other fights. The unit lost 5 Officers and 221 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5 Officers and 385 Enlisted men by disease for a total of 616.