The first acre of of land for East Cemetery was deeded by Thomas Pitkin to the Town of Hartford in 1751. The area was incorporated into East Hartford in 1783 and subsequently into Manchester in 1823, Additional purchases of land in 1843, 1856, 1867, 1896, 1925 and 1955 expanded the cemetery to its present 51 acres. It is the second oldest and largest cemetery in Manchester. Interment.net E...
This cemetery is located on 49 Pound Street, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut. Find a Grave Roots Web
This cemetery is located on Lewis Street, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut and was established in 1822. Find a Grave Roots Web
This cemetery is located on 1622 Torringford Street, Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Find a Grave
The Old North Cemetery is a cemetery on Main Street in the Clay-Arsenal neighborhood north of downtown Hartford, Connecticut. It was established in 1807, and was the city's second municipal cemetery. It was the principal burying ground for the city's elites for many years, and has a fine collection of 19th-century funerary art. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[...
This project is for those buried in Cornwall Cemetery, Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on Boston Post Road and the corner Janna's Lane in Madison, New Haven County, Connecticut. The cemetery’s first gravestone, erected in 1688, marked the burial site of six-year-old Samuel French. Find a Grave Cemetery History Billion Graves
This project is for those who are buried in Old Bethlehem Cemetery, Bethlehem, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 29-99 Under Mountain Road, Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Find a Grave
Wikipedia Quinnipiac University /ˈkwɪnᵻpiːæk/ is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in Hamden, Connecticut, United States at the foot of Sleeping Giant State Park. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees through its College of Arts and Sciences; School of Business and Engineering; School of Communications; School of Health Sciences; School ...
This project is for those buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Located in Fairfield County, the Danbury Cemetery Association was created in November of 1850 as a result of a State law regarding cemeteries. The first officers were Frederick S. Wildman, President; Lucius P. Hoyt, Secretary; with 6 Directors:( Edgar S. Tweedy, George W. Ives laid out the design of the cemetery), Nelson L. White, S. A. Hurlburt, Henry Benedict, and Samuel C. Wildman. And so th...
University of Hartford (UHart) is a private, independent, nonsectarian, coeducational university located mostly in West Hartford, Connecticut. Its 350-acre (1.4 km2) main campus touches portions of three municipalities: Bloomfield, Hartford, and West Hartford. The university attracts students from 48 states and 43 countries. The degree programs at the University of Hartford hold the highest lev...
Spring Grove Cemetery 2035 Main Street Hartford Connecticut 06120 USA Find a Grave: Find a Grave then enter the memorial number Ainsley, Mary Frances (nee Leonard) (1853-1940): Find A Grave Memorial# 88230503 Leonard, Harriet (nee Benden) (1816-1891): Find A Grave Memorial # 88230096 MacGregor, Emily Rose (nee Leonard) (1847-1910): Find A Grave Memorial # 124285942 MacGregor, James...
"Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see, this is the chief. ... You do not know what beauty is if you have not been here." -- Mark Twain on Hartford, 1868 In his 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today , Hartford resident Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) coined the term for the late 19th C. period of incredible wealth associated with the rise of white-collar employmen...
This project is for those buried in Winsted Old Burying Ground, Winsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut. It's also known as Center Cemetery . Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Old North Road Burying Ground, Winsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Find a Grave
Wikipedia The Taft School is a private, coeducational prep school located in Watertown, Connecticut, USA. The school was founded by Horace Dutton Taft in 1890. It has 596 students, about 485 of whom live on the 220-acre (0.89 km2) campus. Taft is a member of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization. The founder was the brother of President William Howard Taft. In its 125-year history, Taft has e...
Centuries ago, Mohegan sachems and their families were buried on a sixteen-acre plateau above the Thames River in the City of Norwich. When Chief Uncas granted a portion of Mohegan land to the English settlers in the mid 1600s, a promise was made that the burial ground would remain in the Tribe’s possession. The promise was continually broken over the next 300 years, and new construction on th...
The Duck River Cemetery, established as a burial place in 1676, is one of the oldest active cemeteries in Connecticut. It covers more than fifteen acres along the west bank of the meandering Duck River and includes gravestones commemorating a Connecticut governor, prosperous colonial merchants, slaves, distinguished judges, ministers, educators, ship captains, artists, actors, ornithologists, s...
This cemetery is located on 20 Elm Drive, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Official Website Find a Grave
The first settlers of Guilford, Connecticut came to America as passengers on the Saint John. The company of settlers on the Saint John was led by the Reverend Henry Whitfield , who had been the rector of St. Margaret's at Ockley in Surrey since 1616.They sailed from England on 20 May 1639 under the command of a Captain Richard Russell, and arrived at New Haven (then Quinnipac), Connecticut, bet...
Cedar Grove Cemetery is a 76-acre non-sectarian, non-profit burial ground in the city of New London, Connecticut. Still an active cemetery, Cedar Grove also is the final resting place of many of the city’s most significant citizens, ranging from a noted colonial-era diarist and ship captains from the city’s heyday as a major whaling port, to top elected officials and wealthy Gilded Age industri...
in 1876, the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) is the military academy of the United States Coast Guard. Located in New London, Connecticut, it is the smallest of the five federal service academies. The academy provides education to future Coast Guard officers in one of eight major fields of study.Unlike the other service academies, admission to the academy does not require a congressio...
Zion Hill Cemetery was known originally as Zion's Hill Cemetery. Established in the 1840s on what was then farmland, the cemetery was expanded southward in the early 1900s to encompass an area called Mount Pleasant. The cemetery has one of the highest elevations within the city of Hartford. The southern edge of the cemetery abuts the campus of Trinity College. Within the 24-acre bounds of Zion...