Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in York County, South Carolina. Official Website History With a population of nearly 6,000 at the time of first European contact, the native inhabitants, the Catawba were primarily agriculturalists. Hernando de Soto passed through the area in the 1540s in his search for gold. Several decades later Juan Pardo recorded his observation of...
This cemetery is located on 3420 North Susquehanna Trail, Manchester Township, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in York County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on August 19, 1749 and named either after the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and county of York in England. Based on the Articles of Confederation having been adopted in York by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 177...
York County (formerly Charles River County ) is a county in the eastern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, located in the Tidewater. As of the 2020 census, the population was 70,045. The county seat is the unincorporated town of Yorktown. Located on the north side of the Virginia Peninsula, with the York River as its northern border, York County is included in the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–New...
This cemetery is located on the corner of Miller and York Road, Newberrytown, York County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave Genealogy Trails
This cemetery is located on 3101 Deininger Road, Springettsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It's also known as Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery . Find a Grave
This cemetery is located in Dover, York County, Pennsylvania Find a Grave
This cemetery is located off of Emigs Mill Road, York County, Pennsylvania. It's also known as Bott's Wolf Cemetery and Wolf Cemetery . Find a Grave
Prospect Hill Cemetery is located at 700 North George Street near historic downtown York, PA. We are the biggest and oldest cemetery in the area. We are a private cemetery that includes numerous historic graves including those of Declaration of Independence signer Philip Livingston, Civil War Union Corps Commander William Buell Franklin, and Civil War industrialist Arthur Briggs Farquhar. Soldi...
The church started as a log cabin called Pigeon Hills Church in 1765 in Spring Grove. The commonwealth’s constitution was adopted a year after the church was built and dedicated. The church had sent at least seven members to serve the Union cause in the Civil War. They are buried in the church's cemetery. Around 1846, the congregation decided it needed more space, so it built a two-story ...
This project is part of the State of Maine Portal . York County, Maine is the extreme southwestern county in the state, along the New Hampshire border and the North Atlantic Ocean. Permanently re-founded in 1639, it held several of the oldest colonial settlement in Maine; consequently, is the oldest county in Maine and one of the oldest in the United States. As of the 2010 census, t...
This cemetery is located on 300 Frederick Street Suite 2, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 6084 West Canal Road, Paradise Township, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on High Street, North Berwick, York County, Maine. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Riverside Cemetery, Cornish, York County, Maine. It's also known as Cornish Cemetery . Find a Grave
Hope Cemetery sits in the heart of downtown Kennebunk, steps away from Kennebunk Town Hall, The Brick Store Museum, and Kennebunk Free Library. Initially established as a small burying ground next to what is now the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, with its first burial in 1790, it is one of the most visible reminders of Kennebunk’s rich history. A beautiful, peaceful, serene setting...
This cemetery is located on 649 South Cherry Road, Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina. Find a Grave
The cemetery is located on 1502 Mount Rose Avenue. Burials from the Erb Cemetery were reinterred here. Find a Grave USGW Archives
Wikipedia The Battle of Big Bethel was one of the earliest land battles of the American Civil War. It took place on the Virginia Peninsula, near Newport News, on June 10, 1861. Virginia's decision to secede from the Union had been ratified by popular vote on May 23, and Confederate Col. (later Maj. Gen.) John B. Magruder was sent down the peninsula to deter any advance on the state capital Ric...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in York County, Nebraska. York County was organized in 1870. Sources differ on the origin of the county's name: some state it was named after York in England, while others maintain it was named by early settlers from York County, Pennsylvania. Adjacent Counties Butler County Seward County Saline County Fillmore County Cl...
Links to City of Toronto Cemeteries=* Forest Lawn Mausoleum * Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery * Mount Pleasant Cemetery * Park Lawn Cemetery * Prospect Cemetery * Cathedral Church of Saint James * St James' Cemetery and Crematorium
The Battle of Williamsburg, also known as the Battle of Fort Magruder, took place on May 5, 1862, in York County, James City County, and Williamsburg, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the first pitched battle of the Peninsula Campaign, in which nearly 41,000 Federals and 32,000 Confederates were engaged, fighting an inconclusive battle that ended wit...
This project is for those buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Waterboro, York County, Maine. Find a Grave
It is on County road D just about 2-3 miles south of Highway 66. This cemetery is close to the city of Polk, which is in Polk County. However this cemetery is just over the county line in York County. Find a Grave Billion Graves
The Battle of Yorktown or Siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Marching from Fort Monroe, Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac encountered Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder's small Confederate force at Yorktown behind the Warwick Line. McClellan suspended his march up the Peninsula toward Richmond an...