The dead in Queens outnumber the living, thanks to the Rural Cemeteries Act of 1847-8. After a series of epidemics cut a broad swath through all of New York City’s social classes in the 1830s and ’40s ...
When local high school students attending McKinley Tech High School learned about the condition of the Mount Zion and Female Union Band Society Cemetery in Georgetown, they decided to do something to ...
Dozens of distraught families are demanding answers from Mount Zion Cemetery over the poor condition of their loved ones' gravesites. The cemetery on Hollins Ferry Road in Lansdowne is overgrown with ...
OHIO COUNTY, W.Va. — A massive mudslide ripped through Mount Zion Cemetery last week, and now elected officials and specialists are getting a first-hand look at the situation. Hundreds of burial ...
Mount Zion, a Jewish cemetery, occupies about 80 acres in Maspeth near New Calvary Cemetery and the BQE. It was opened in the early 1890s under the auspices of Chevra Bani Sholom and later by the ...
When it comes to United States history, not all sites are created equal. White Americans have a tendency to focus on the most flattering aspects of our history while pushing aside the things that ...
Most of the men in the black and white photo are gone now, but no one was thinking about exiting the world when the photo was taken. Not even Ernest Gaines, who is happy to be surrounded by them. The ...
Tombstones carried away by a landslide at the Mount Zion Cemetery in Wheeling are shown here. An estimated 200 graves were impacted, though no caskets were unearthed. Charles Yocke, president of the ...
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