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cemeteries in Philadelphia at the time. Lebanon Cemetery was condemned in 1899. The bodies were reinterred in 1902 to Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania

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

soldiers that died in nearby hospitals. The soldiers' remains were reinterred to the Philadelphia National Cemetery in 1885. In 1951, the cemetery property was

soldiers are buried in Section "O" of the cemetery, with 30–40 buried in a row near the National Cemetery. The original wooden markers in Section "O" were

century, the West Philadelphia district was becoming a fashionable suburb. In order to save the core of Hamilton's estate, in 1840, The Woodlands Cemetery Company

acres (200 ha) of land. The history of the location of the cemetery dates back to the 1840s, when California was a part of Mexico. The land was granted by

duties of the cemetery. During the 1990s, twenty acres were added to the cemetery which were given by the Department of the Army. In 2002, the cemetery was using

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

R. Goldsborough in 1847, the "red right return" system of markings has been in use in the United States ever since. In the early 1840s, the Survey began

were made on the grounds. The grid survives to this day and was extended as the cemetery expanded. Starting in the late 1840s, the cemetery was influenced

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

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

Territory during the Indian Wars. Participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn Fort Meade and the Black Hills National Cemetery Administration Fort

repaired by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. In 2013, the statue was relocated and rededicated in Laurel Hill Cemetery. In December

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

cause of the recent turmoil. He charged that the evils perpetrated on the Native Americans were caused by the weakness of the U.S. government in facing the

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

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

1868 the National Cemetery was established in a 7-acre (2.8 ha) plot, and all of the nearby cemeteries had their interments transferred to it. This included

which had taken the lives of several of the men stationed there by 1824. The initial interments were made in the area during this time. In 1838, a new fort