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 ...

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 ...

The thin light of a cold late afternoon not long before the winter solstice provided a suitably solemn backdrop to a visit to pay respects to the dead. Time, weather and the occasional treefall has ...

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 ...

Volunteers from the Daughters of the American Revolution’s William Henry Harrison Chapter are tackling Valparaiso’s Old City Cemetery on Union Street as their latest historic preservation project.

Statue monuments stand in family plots under a crescent moon in 2023 at the Old City Cemetery that date to the mid-19th century. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in ...

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 ...

Every life is a story that ends in a sad event — namely the death of the central character. So to walk through a quiet cemetery is to leaf through a storybook filled with narratives of people who ...

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 ...

Edinburgh City Council said both graveyards have been forced to close at night due to “cave raves” where young people have been underage drinking, drug-taking, and abusing the public and visitors.

ARLINGTON, Va. — On a cool, overcast, misty Thursday morning, nearly 1,500 soldiers of the Army’s 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as the Old Guard, placed more than 260,000 flags at headstones ...