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Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger RUTLAND — As this city’s sole cemetery commissioner and head of the Vermont Old Cemetery Association , Thomas Giffin can tell you all about the long life of ...
October 07, 2024 Gloria Dei Church creates app so visitors can take self-guided tours of its nearly 350-year-old cemetery The program includes maps, photos and information for about 1,000 ...
Photos show some of the ancient graves found in the basement. Basement renovations in Corbeil-Essonnes led archaeologists to ancient graveyard with dozens of burials over 1,000 years old, photos show.
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig) AP. Advocates in this Hudson River city purchased a residential property covering about half the old cemetery several years ago and now use the house there as a visitor center.
Archaeologists unearthed a 300-year-old hospital graveyard in Karlsruhe-Durlach with over 160 skeletons and ‘death crowns.’ Photo from Stuttgart Regional Council, Damminger Outside a hospital ...
Since its dedication in 1852, Old Gray Cemetery has expanded, acquiring additional land in 1864, 1868, 1879 and 1909. More than 9,000 people are buried there, according to the cemetery's website.
Students working at the site of an African burial ground, backfilling a hole they had dug, in Kingston, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) AP ...
A Centuries-Old Cemetery for People Who Were Enslaved Is Reclaimed in New York KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — On a residential block in upstate New York, college students dig and sift backyard dirt as ...
Taylor’s 12-year-old grandson, David Ribar, of Valparaiso, was recruited to be at Old City Cemetery at 7 a.m. Wednesday to help with the cleanup.