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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Michigan. Official Website Wayne County was the sixth county in the Northwest Territory, formed August 15, 1796 from portions of territorial Hamilton County, territorial Knox County and unorganized territory. It was named for the U.S. general "Mad Anthony" Wayne. Adjacent Counties & Provinces Washtenaw County Mo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Georgia. Official Website History At the time of European contact, the area of what would become Wayne County was settled by the Guale people. Being close to the coast and bordered by the Altamaha River, Wayne County's history includes occupation by Spanish missionaries at the time of the settlement of Saint Augustine ...
Goal and Scope of this Project This project is a description of the city of Detroit, its history and people that made it famous. The story of Detroit--and this project--starts from the first recorded mention of the site in 1670, when French missionaries found a stone idol venerated by the Indians there and destroyed it with an axe. Detroit on the map today. Toponymy How to Input Locations ...
This cemetery is located on 303 Odum Screven Road, Screven Wayne County, Georgia. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on South Breazeale Avenue, Mount Olive, Wayne County, North Carolina. It's also known as Carver Cemetery . Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located on 114 East James Street, Mount Olive, Wayne County, North Carolina. It's also known as Oakview Cemetery . Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Iowa. Official Website Wayne County was formed in 1846 but was still attached to other counties for governmental purposes. It was named after General Anthony Wayne. Adjacent Counties Lucas County Appanoose County Gage County, Missouri Mercer County, Missouri Decatur County Cities, Townships & Communitie...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, New York. Official Website History The county was created on April 11, 1823 and is named in honor of General Anthony Wayne, an American Revolutionary War hero and American statesman. War of 1812 Two small skirmishes were fought in the county during the War of 1812: one in Sodus in June 1813,[8] and the other in Wil...
This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of West Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county. Wayne County, West Virginia was originally Wayne County, Virginia, which was created from part of Cabell County in 1842. The county was named for General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. Due to the constant threat of Indian a...
The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Tigers compete in the Central division of the American League (AL) in Major League Baseball (MLB). One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in 1894 as part of the Western League. They are the oldest continuous one-name, one-city franchise in the AL. The Tigers have won ...
Wikipedia Wayne State University (WSU) is an American public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District and Wayne State University Buildings Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 380 programs to nearly 28,000 graduate and undergraduate students. It is currently Michigan's th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, North Carolina. Official Website Wayne County was established during the American Revolutionary War on November 2, 1779, from the western part of Dobbs County. It was named for "Mad Anthony" Wayne, a general in the war. Adjacent Counties Greene County Wilson County Lenoir County Duplin County Sampson Count...
Please add those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Ohio. Official Website Wayne County was created by the government of the Northwest Territory in 1796. It was named for General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. Adjacent Counties Medina County Summit County Stark County Holmes County Ashland County Cities & Villages Apple Creek Burbank Congress Creston Dalton Doyles...
An historically significant cemetery, this cemetery features a Confederate monument that was erected in 1883 and contains the mass grave of 800 Civil War soldiers beneath it. Willow Dale Cemetery was opened in 1853. At the Meeting of the Goldsboro commissioners held January 4, 1853, Colonel C.J. Nelson was authorized to lay off the graveyard purchased from W.B. Edmondson, and to leave alleys e...
Earlham Cemetery was established in 1861 on the west side of Richmond, adjacent to Earlham College. It became a corporation in 1863. Construction of a multi-family mausoleum and chapel was started in 1976 and completed in the spring of 1977. Earlham Cemetery's "Soldier's Field" was set aside for the interment of veterans until space ran out in the late 1950s. The "Veteran's Field of Honor" was...
Located on the east side of Route 301, south of the intersection of Howman Road in Chester Township. Although physically located in Lattasburg, it was a West Salem mailing address, with a 44287 zip code. The cemetery is located in Sharon Township, Wayne County, Ohio, and is # 12617 (Mohican Church of the Brethren Cemetery / Mohican Cemetery ) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohi...
This cemetery is located on the western side of Canaan Center Road, north of Smithville Western Road, in Madisonburg, Wayne County, Ohio. It's also known as Lehman's Cemetery . Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Mississippi. One of Mississippi's first counties, Wayne County was founded in 1809 and was named for US Army general Anthony Wayne. It is located along the Alabama border in southeastern Mississippi. Adjacent Counties Clarke County Choctaw County, Alabama Jasper County Jones County Perry County Greene C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Utah. Official Website Due to its remoteness and harsh terrain, settlements did not appear in the future Wayne County until the 1880s. By 1892, there was enough settlement and enough interest in a separate county (due mainly to the difficulty of accessing the Piute County seat), that Utah Territory passed an act (effec...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was formed from part of Northampton County on March 21, 1798 and was named for the Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne. Adjacent Counties Broome County, NY Delaware County, NY Sullivan County, NY Pike County Monroe County Lackawanna County Susquehanna County
Woodlawn Cemetery welcomes thousands of visitors every year from near and far. Most visit loved ones, while many come to experience the historic and peaceful nature of the cemetery. At over 123 years old, this cemetery holds much of the history of the Detroit area within its borders. Monuments and mausoleums throughout the cemetery memorialize the lives of Detroit greats from the auto and mus...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Kentucky. The first known European-American settlers to visit the area were longhunters who arrived in the 1770s. They established a temporary camp near Mill Springs on the Cumberland River. Benjamin Price built a log cabin in 1775, and Price's Station became one of the earliest Kentucky settlements. This was still an a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Indiana. Official Website The first permanent European-American settlers in the area were Quakers from North Carolina. They settled about 1806 near the east fork of the Whitewater River, an area including what is today the city of Richmond. Jeptha Turner, the first white child in the county, was born here in 1806. Way...
This project is for those buried in Warren Cemetery, Orchardville, Wayne County, Illinois. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Johnsonville, Wayne County, Illinois. Find a Grave