KINGSTON, N.Y. — On a residential block in upstate New York, college students dig and sift backyard dirt as part of an archaeological project that could provide insights into the lives of ...

A proposed territorial road through Vancouver upset the dead when it cut through two early graveyards. One cemetery was located on the Vancouver Barracks site and the other near the Providence Academy ...

A monument depicting a person holding a cross stands among the headstones at the Old City Cemetery on Wednesday, atop the grave of Stephen A. Boutwell, who died in 1881. The cemetery, which dates to ...

Old Gray Cemetery was founded in 1850 and dedicated in 1852. It's named for poet Thomas Gray and was originally called Gray Cemetery until the New Gray Cemetery was established in 1892. Knoxvillians ...

Old Bayview Cemetery, the oldest federal military cemetery west of the Mississippi River, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Old Bayview Cemetery was created in 1845 to bury ...

GREENWICH – After 300 years, the headstones in the Old Byram Cemetery are damaged and crooked. But state grant money may help restore the historic stones. Gov. Ned Lamont announced last week that ...

One of the most famous residents of the cemetery is Muggins Taylor, a scout for Lt. Col. George Custer who carried news of the battle to the rest of the state and later became a deputy sheriff. In ...

ROANOKE, Va. – A historic cemetery in Roanoke is getting a much needed makeover with the help of a national expert. Old Lick Cemetery on Orange Avenue in Roanoke is getting a new lease on life with ...

There have been an estimated 117 billion people who have been born in human history, according to the nonprofit Population Reference Bureau. Most of them are gone ‒ the population is about 8 billion ...

Councils should take responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of old, closed graveyards, the Church in Wales has said. Because of smaller congregations and fewer donations, the organisation ...