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 =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,...
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Tennessee. Official Website History Cumberland County was formed in 1856 from parts of several other counties. During the Civil War, the county was nearly evenly split between those supporting the Union and those supporting the Confederacy. In 1787, the North Carolina legislature ordered widening and improvemen...
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 ...
Cumberland County was established in 1749 from Goochland County. The county is named for William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, third son of King George II of Great Britain. Cumberland County was also home to the Fleming family, which included Judge John Fleming and his son Judge William Fleming. From 1749 until 1777, when the eastern portion was detached to form Powhatan County, Mosby Tavern s...
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...
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 ...
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, Village...
The earliest permanent settlements in Cumberland County were along the Cohansey River. Between 1680 and 1700, settlers had begun to carve out of the South Jersey wilderness a home for themselves and their families. Meaningful permanent settlement in what is now called Cumberland County dates from 1675 when John Fenwick purchased his tenth of West New Jersey from Lord John Berkeley . Fenwick es...
This project is for those buried in Washington Cemetery, Crooked Creek Township, Cumberland County, Illinois. Find a Grave
The Battle of Averasborough or the Battle of Averasboro , fought March 16, 1865, in Harnett and Cumberland counties, North Carolina , as part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War , was a prelude to the climactic Battle of Bentonville , which began three days later. Wikipedia
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...
The Methodist church and cemetery, located on 171 Merrill Road, Alnwick, Roseneath, Northumberland County, Ontario, were started in 1857 on the farm of Solomon Merrill and his wife, Maria Lapp. It is situated on Lot 19, Concession 4 of Alnwick twp. It was the second church and cemetery in Alnwick township. The cemetery is in current use, but the church, still standing, has not been used for ser...
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 Municipalities...
MacPherson Presbyterian Church Cemetery Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA:
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...
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 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
This cemetery is located on 303 North Embarrass Highway, Greenup, Cumberland County, Illinois. Find a Grave Genealogy Trails