A cemetery, too many, is a revered place where one can reflect and remember their departed loved ones, but cemeteries are also living historical records of times long gone. One such cemetery is at the heart of its community’s Heritage Day. The Hanover Green Cemetery Association in Wilkes-Barre, PA, which is one of the nation’s oldest […]
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Historic Dublin cemetery reopens after closing 150 years ago
Cemeteries are important resources to their communities. They are places of worship and remembrance, they act as social locations, and they are a physical piece of our history. A cemetery is more than a place where our loved ones are laid to rest; they are a linchpin to the community. After 150, one such location will be […]
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New Albany’s first cemetery to receive restoration funding
Historic cemeteries are not just locations where ancestors are buried but also act as historical documents of who came before and how each person helped form the society of the local area, state, country, and the world today. And this fact is not lost on The New Albany Cemetery Restoration Advisory Board, who brought to […]
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Cemetery using technology for digital tombstones
Humanity has always gone about memorializing the deceased with tributes to the person’s memory, from the Pyramids of Giza to the monuments at Arlington National Cemetery. Each tells a history of the person and now a historic cemetery in Maribor, Slovenia is taking their tombstones to the next level with digital tombstones. The idea is fairly simple: […]
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Ancient Jewish cemetery found in Rome
The ancient city of Rome never ceases to reveal pieces of its history to the world and, with new real estate being as sparse as it is, last month’s discovery at a building restoration by archaeologists has helped to locate the long-vanished Campus Iudeorum, or Field of the Jews, jewish cemetery. Historians were well-aware that the […]
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Restoration Help Needed for Historic North Carolina Cemetery
The Robert Foreman Cemetery in the community of Bruce, NC, has seen better days. The cemetery was vandalized approximately two years ago and it is believed that the suspects broke in to the graves to steal jewelry and gold tooth fillings among the bones. With no caretakers, the cemetery has languished. The cemetery is the third oldest […]
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