Nov. 23—WATERFORD — Members of the town's Historic Properties Commission are working with the first selectman to start a group that would document and care for the town's small historic cemeteries.

Nov. 2—I've visited many cemeteries since I moved to Mercer County years ago, but I know there must be many more I know nothing about. Big cemeteries near cities like Bluefield and Princeton are easy ...

The names of nearly 4000 men, women and Children will soon be cast in metal and placed on these monuments. They were all buried here in Potter's Field between 18 97 and 1957. As unknowns too poor to ...

According to one expert, many cemeteries have been displaced or erased by urban development, especially cemeteries where Black people were buried. The burial grounds of enslaved people have become ...

A Macon family is making efforts to restore a forgotten cemetery on land they purchased. Courtesy Amy Smith Amy and Kevin Smith knew there was a cemetery on property they recently bought, they just ...

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A new University of South Florida exhibit is exploring erased cemeteries, showcasing the discovery of 45 unmarked cemeteries and burial grounds in Hillsborough ...

This small Black cemetery, which was cloaked by vegetation and largely forgotten for decades, is the resting place of some of Melbourne's pioneers.

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 ...

Rows of uninscribed stones and depressions mark the graves of 56 long-forgotten people about 400 feet from the site of the new Fork Union firehouse in Fluvanna County. Surveyors were looking at ...

The cemetery housed boys who were detained at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children. Deep in Prince George’s County, Maryland, lies a wooded area that holds a forgotten history ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A long-forgotten African American cemetery in Jacksonville, where World War II veterans and descendants of slave families are buried, is finally receiving the honor and ...

In Jacksonville, Florida, a community is uncovering a hidden chapter of its past. Beneath the Emmett Reed Community Center, a park frequented by locals, lies the site of Mount Herman Cemetery, a ...