This project is for those buried in Lafayette Memorial Park, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. The cemetery is located on 2301 Ramsey Street and is also known as Lafayette Memorial Cemetery . Official Website Find a Grave
Fort Bragg, now called Fort Liberty, North Carolina, is a military installation of the United States Army in North Carolina, and is one of the largest military installations in the world by population, with around 54,000 military personnel. The military reservation is located within Cumberland and Hoke counties, and borders the towns of Fayetteville, Spring Lake, and Southern Pines. It was also...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Official Website Fayetteville is a city in and the county seat of Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is best known as the home of Fort Liberty, a major U.S. Army installation northwest of the city. The area of present-day Fayetteville was historically inhabited by various Siouan Native A...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1754 from Bladen County. It was named for Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), captain-general of the British army and victorious commander at the Battle of Culloden. In 1771 parts of Cumberland County, Johnston County, and Orange Count...
Wikipedia = Bowdoin College Bowdoin College /ˈboʊdɨn/ is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick. Founded in 1794, the college enrolls 1,839 students and has been coeducational since 1971. Bowdoin offers 33 majors and 4 additional minors, and has a student-faculty ratio of 9:1. Famous alumni include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Franklin ...
Wikipedia The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. Founded in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Pratt under authority of the US federal government, Carlisle was the first federally funded off-reservation Indian boarding school. It ...
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road , Battle of Fayetteville and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle ) took place during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War in Cumberland County, North Carolina (now in Hoke County), on the grounds of the present day Fort Liberty Military Reservation. Involving about 4,500 men, i...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Kentucky. Official Website Cumberland County was created in 1798 from land given by Green County. It was named for the Cumberland River. In 1829, the first oil well in the United States was dug three miles north of Burkesville. However, it is usually not recognized as such because the drillers were looking for sal...
This cemetery is located on 437 Hio Ridge Road, Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine. It's also known as Upper Hio Cemetery . Find a Grave
This project is part of the State of Maine Portal . = Cumberland County, Maine is a county in the southwestern part of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 281,674, making it the most populous county in Maine. Its county seat is Portland. Cumberland County was founded in 1760 from a portion of York County, Massachusetts and named for William, Duke of Cumberland, a son of King Ge...
This cemetery is located on West Main Street, Hazel Dell, Cumberland County, Illinois. It's also known as the Church of God Cemetery . Find a Grave
It is rural, about 2 1/2 miles north of Greenup Township, just west off of IL Route 130. Signs exist to mark the roads to turn on to reach it from 130. Find a Grave
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Cumberland County was first settled by a majority of Scots-Irish immigrants who arrived in this area about 1730. English and German settlers constituted about ten percent of the early population. The General Assembly (legislature) of the Pennsylvania colony on January 27, 1750, cr...
This cemetery is located on 303 North Embarrass Highway, Greenup, Cumberland County, Illinois. Find a Grave Genealogy Trails
Gray Village Cemetery is comprised of approximately 28 acres at the intersections of Routes 100, 202, and 115 in the center of Gray Village, Cumberland County, Maine. An estimated 5,600 are buried here. The Gray Village Cemetery is the largest in town and the only one in active use. It was opened in 1784, records of town historian George Hill state, when Daniel Libby, a prominent businessman h...
This project is for those buried in Rolling Green Cemetery, Camp Hill, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The cemetery is located on 1811 Carlisle Road and is also known as Rolling Green Memorial Park . Notable Burials William Harrison "Billy" Myers (1910-1995) - MLB Player Links Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, New Jersey. Official Website Cumberland County is named for Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. The county was formally created from portions of Salem County as of January 19, 1748. Adjacent Counties Atlantic County Gloucester County Cape May County Kent County, Delaware Salem County Municipalit...
Fort Bragg Main Post Cemetery, now known as Fort Liberty Main Post Cemetery , was established during the 1918 influenza pandemic for interments of civilian workers (most Puerto Rican) whose remains, for a number of reasons, could not be shipped home. Between the wars the post was an artillery base, and the cemetery was mainly used for the burial of dependents. In 1940 Fort Bragg was designated ...
This cemetery is located on Kansas Road, Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Illinois. Official Website Cumberland County was created on March 2, 1843, from parts of Coles County. It is named for the National Road (Cumberland Road), which was projected to run through it. Adjacent Counties Coles County Clark County Jasper County Shelby County Effingham County Cities, Vill...
Founded in 1862 by an act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Chestnut Hill Cemetery is one of the Mechanicsburg area's most historic landmarks. On June 28, 1863, when General Albert Jenkins marched his 700 or so cavalrymen through Mechanicsburg and demanded that the town surrender, the Cemetery was mistaken by Jenkins' scouts for an entrenched military position. From the conclusion of the C...
Wikipedia =Dickinson College=Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1773 as Carlisle Grammar School, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, six days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded after the formation of the United States. Dickinson was founded by Benjamin Rush,...
Established by the city in 1854, the cemetery was designed by Charles H. Howe as a rural landscape with winding carriage paths, ponds, footbridges, gardens, a chapel, funerary art, and sculpture. It also includes extensive wooded wetlands. Evergreen was modeled after America's first rural cemetery-Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The popularity of garden/rural cemeteries as designed la...
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (Ship or SU) is a public university in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Founded in 1871, it later became the first teachers college in Pennsylvania. Shippensburg University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. History The commonwealth legislated the State Normal ...
Wikipedia The Battle of Sailor's Creek was fought on April 6, 1865, near Farmville, Virginia, as part of the Appomattox Campaign, near the end of the American Civil War. It was the last major engagement between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee and the Army of the Potomac, under the overall direction of Union General-in-Chief Lieutenant General Ulysse...