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Historic Places in 2016. The first interment took place in the area of the cemetery in 1828 it was then used as the post cemetery for the St. Francis Barracks

47,000 burials. In 1946, the cemetery was condemned by the city of Philadelphia. The bodies were disinterred in 1947, transported to the Evergreen Memorial

were required because the Hospital Fund had gotten into trouble in the 1820s when the Trustee's elected to invest fund assets in private equities rather

found. They were re-interred in the cemetery. This burying ground became part of the national cemetery system in 1930. It is the location of eight Medal of

most of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the largest protected area in the U.S. and the fourth-largest in the world. Of the 50 U.S. states

general of the Continental Army. The next year, the settlers signed the Cumberland Compact, which established a representative government for the colony called

reinterred to the Philadelphia National Cemetery in 1891. By the 1910s, the cemetery was mostly full and the surrounding city was rapidly expanding. The City of

groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607, the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent English colony in the New World, leading

is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana

expedition in 1609, the Dutch established the multiethnic colony of New Netherland in 1621. England seized the colony from the Dutch in 1664, renaming it the

The Mexico City National Cemetery is a cemetery in Mexico City. It was established in 1851 by the United States Congress to gather the American dead of

West Campus (formerly the University of the Sciences) in Philadelphia. The pathways and avenues of the cemetery and mansion make up the Woodlands Heritage

admitted to the Union in 1791 as the 14th state. The geography of the state is marked by the Green Mountains, which run north–south up the middle of the state

November 1854, the 26th person to be buried in the cemetery. The first permanent memorial erected in the Nonconformist section of the cemetery was that of