Abner Pollard Mausoleum Historical Background

I knew that my hometown of Blairsville, Pennsylvania was a rich historical place before my research. I turned to visiting the historical society in my town for my information, there I was given a tour of a historical house where all of the artifacts had been donated. After looking into the history and the other elements of the town, I found out that the place where I grew up was so much more history than I could have ever imagined.

Most events and places of historical value nowadays holds little value in our lives. We confine ourselves to our interstates and highways, following the long line of motel chains stopping for maybe two minutes to take a picture just to say we were there. We take nothing away from these sites that is of real value. We barely scratch at the surface of information and true meaning of what happened at these historical sites. Rinker Buck explains his own experience with removing himself from this cultural norm

The graves of many famous people are at Arlington Nationel Cemetary. It did not start out that way. In 1861, a Confederate General and his wife owned the house and the land. That General was Robert E. Lee. His house was across the river from Washington, D.C. The Union Army took over the land at the start of the Civil War. Union soldiers that were killed in the war was buried near the house. These soldiers were poor. Their families could not pay for them to be buried. Arlington was called a "potter's field." A potters field is a place where poor or unknown people are buried. After the war, something odd started to happen. Union officers asked to be buried at Arlington. They wanted to be near those men who had been in the war with them. Americans

About 18 miles North East of Manhattan there isn’t much around but small hills covered in crop fields and the occasional farmstead. If you drive just a little ways up King Road, just off highway 13 you will find a cemetery with a sign above two wire gates that says King’s Cemetery. There are three other names listed below King’s Cemetery, other names the grounds have been know as. One of these names is Adam’s Peak. This is rather strange considering the cemetery is not on a peak, nor is there a single stone bearing the name Adam. Upon further investigation you will find Adam’s Peak was, during the 1870’s and 80’s, a town and community.

City of Miami Cemetery which is located in Miami, state Florida, considered as the city’s oldest cemetery. This historical place located in the address: 1800 NE 2nd Ave

Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the biggest cemeteries in New York City and it's located in Woodlawn Heights. The special thing about this place is that it has the character of a rural cemetery. Woodlawn Cemetery was built during the Civil War and many great personalities in the American arts such as Herman Melville, and musicians Irving Berlin, Miles Davis, etc.

As some of you may be aware, Woodlawn National Cemetery is the final resting place for our fallen soldiers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our great Country. It is the duty of the workers of the cemetery and even us to make sure that their sacrifice for Freedom is not forgotten. This beautiful and sacred ground is also a final resting place for another group of soldiers.

The Arlington National cemetery is a final resting place for some of America's most famous war heroes and fallen soldiers. The cemetery conducts around 27-30 services a day and between 6-8 on Saturday. The grounds of the cemetery honor those who have served our nation by providing a sense of beauty and peace for our guests.

I visited the Stones River Battlefield located in Murfreesboro, TN. I chose this locating, because it was close and convenient for me to explore in-between classes one day. I actually learned quite a bit about the land and what took place there in 1862. Some information was giving to me shortly after I enter their visitor center, and I was guided in the right direction to help me with my paper.

The City of Miami Cemetery was built in 1897 during Miami’s pioneer era, as a result of tradeoff of ten acres of land territory, made by the City of Miami and one of the City’s founder families, the Brickell’s. The purpose of this funeral landmark was creating a place to commemorate people’s lives, as William and Mary Brickell wished. According to the data, it is the oldest and only municipal cemetery in Dade County. During 1897 and 1898 this place was laid out and divided into plots, this made easily the organization of the families who were buried. It provides a historical resemblance to the late 19th Century and the early 20th century when it comes to the architectural headstones and classical mausoleums of the Cemetery. Also has visual

On April 13th, 1946 Albert Greene was born to Robert and Cora Greene in Dansby, Arkansas(Biography.com). At the age of nine, Greene launched his music career by

Chester Lauck was born in Alleene, Arkansas, February 2, 1902. (Alleene, Arkansas)(www.mu.net/stemple/page1.htm) His parents were W.J. and Cora Lauck. (Cate, Micheal, 190) Chet moved to Mena in 1911, where he met Norris Goff. They became very good friends. Chet lived on Port Arthur Avenue in Mena. His

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17th, 1706. He was the tenth son of a soap maker, Josiah Franklin. His mother Aliah Folger, which was a second wife of his father. His father had 17 children in all that he took care of. When he was 15, his brother started The English Courant, the first newspaper in Boston. Although, there were two more papers in the city prior to that. Benjamin wanted to start writing on his

Cemeteries intrigue me, and Oakland is no exception to this interest. After years of constant bypassing the cemetery in route to school, I first decided to visit around September of my junior year, and explored the entire cemetery for the next two days. I was immediately infatuated, and have returned 5 more times since then. Throughout my tour I was able to view the beautiful statues, weathered graves, and memorial that held a surplus of information about the social statuses of these individuals, their struggles, and ancestry.

The cemetery I chose to visit and explore was the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. On the way to the cemetery I couldn’t help but feel anxious. When I began to drive past the cemetery to its entrance, all I could see were miles and miles of headstones. It was eerie to say the least. As a kid, whenever my family would drive by a cemetery, my siblings and I would hold our breath until we passed so as to not breathe in the wandering, lost souls. Actually going into a cemetery to look around seemed counterintuitive, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to hold my breath for that long. It didn’t help that right when I entered those black gates that separated the living from the dead, clouds of smoke and ash permeated the air around me due to bodies being cremated on site.