Coolest cemeteries you have visited

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I know . . .a bit morbid . . . but I have walked through several places jam-packed with historical gravesites.

Worked in London for a spell near the Moorgate Tube Station. The Bunhill fields burial ground gave site in the city had plots for Daniel Dafoe (Author), William Blake (Poet), Susanna Wesley (Mother of Methodism), and Thomas Bayes (Bayes Theorem . .statistics.)

I lived up north and would visit Highgate cemetery. That included countless influential British citizens but some of the ones I enjoyed were

Charles Chubb (Chubb Locks)
Most relatives of Charles Dickens
Michael Faraday (Famous Scientist)
Family of Sigmund Freud
Henry Gray (Medical Research, Author of Gray's Anatomy)
Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)
Karl Marx

Obviously Westminster, St. Pauls, Arlington National, Washington National Cathedral, and the Texas State Cemetary have a ton.

Any others I am missing?


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Winston Churchill's grave in 2001.

St Martin's, Bladon, just outside Blenheim Palace grounds.

Consuelo Vanderbilt is also buried there of course.

Any walk through Westminster Abbey or St Paul's in London is interesting.
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Pre Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
Spore Ag
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Actually love touring old cemeteries. My 2 favorites are Novodevichye in Moscow. Nationalistic headstones of their hero accomplishments such as Andre Tupolovs adorned jet on his.
Fort Canning in Singapore which had headstones chronicled from transport to the island or as a result of foreign conflicts.
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Most recent cool cemeteries

Old Calton Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland (home of The American Civil War Memorial)

Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland
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We were on a hunting lease out near Blanco and Kendalia for a while. There were a few old tombstones on the property, way out back on the land in the middle of some hill county woods. Was pretty neat to look at. Latter half of the 1800s dates if I recall correctly.
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I have visited some cool cemeteries. The South Vienna Cemetery, which has a musicians corner, where Strauss, Mozart, Schubert and a couple of others are all buried right next to each other is really cool.

However, the best cemetery I've done, by far, is in Singapore. It's basically a park now, and since it was bombed in WWII, then occupied by the Japanese and destroyed and everything was all jumbled, they've moved the stones to the edge, built them into the wall, and turned it into a park. But the stones all have great stories. Remember, Singapore was a British colony, but the whole world came there in days of sail. I'll post a couple to give you the flavor:


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I thought the old new orleans cemetery was cool.
For a personal connection, i have a bunch of relatives buried here.

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Several Imperial War Grave cemeteries I saw while touring the path of Operation Market Garden, and the US cemetery in Luxembourg where Patton is buried.
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Aside from Arlington National (which I'm not sure you would call "cool"), there are a couple of cool cemeteries in Granbury TX where Jesse James is buried and a lot of Davy Crockett's relatives. His second wife is buried in another cemetery in town.
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Fort Canning
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Although all of the American World War I cemeteries in France I thought were impressive, my favorite was the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery. With over 14,000 burials, it is the largest. That was the only battle my grandfather was involved in and he was gassed in that campaign.

A cemetery I drove past, but did not visit, was in, or near, Griffin Georgia. If I recall correctly, it was terraced and a lot of Civil War dead were buried there. I have always intended to go back and see it, but never have.
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Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA. Multiple US presidents, Jefferson Davis and a ton of Confederate generals.
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Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah was featured in Clint Eastwood's movie, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Definitely worth a look, if you're in that neck of the woods.

Glenwood Cemetery in Houston has many famous folks buried there, and is a beautiful cemetery.
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The Graceland Cemetery on the North Side of Chicago was where all the famous, rich, and powerful Gilded Age folks built their plots. They would one up each other with increasingly ground tombs.

Beer Brewer Peter Shoenhofen built a Pyramid



Which was one upped by Lawyer and Banker Martin Ryerson



Marshall Field hired the same team that did the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. They gave him a Roman mythology inspired setup praising the God Mercury.




Potter Palmer (Hotel Builder) went Greek with this setup



Allan Pinkerton of Detective Agency



Architect Daniel Burnham had his own island cut out.

But my favorite was Mr. Cub himself Ernie Banks.





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And here is some weird trivia about Ernie Banks.

He was born and raised in Dallas before setting off the for the MLB. His nephew played catcher for the Rangers in the 80s, and his great nephew is our own basketball great Acie Law.

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Apart from Arlington, Rock Island in Illinois was cool. It housed the largest Confederate prison camp during the Civil War, so looking through the cemetery one could see who buried there was union or Confederate with a simple glance. Confederate tombstones have steeper angles and a point on the top, while union tombstones were rounded. I've also been to the Presbyterian cemetery in Daretown, NJ which has some very cool ties to the church there (the church was one location from which the Committees of Correspondence wrote prior to the First Continental Congress).
http://www.pittsgrovepc.org/contentpages/32961/8704c0d2-5763-456c-b89a-fcc6d7becefc/History.aspx
Lastly, there is a cemetery in Rochester, MN that is the final resting place of Archibald "Doc" Graham, who was featured in Field of Dreams.
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Jerusalem and Oskar Schindler's grave. Tradition is, if you revere someone, you place a small rock on their grave

The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But, it's still on the list.
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Two of my favorites….Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia….where Button Gwinnet, signer of the Decl. Of Ind. is buried (1777 due to a fatal wound from a duel!)

And the Williams-Buck Cemetery on the San Gabriel outside of Liberty Hill. Beautiful location and nice warning sign that says "beware of Rattlesnakes!" (Lots of my relatives are buried there.)



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Visited Arlington and the Texas State Cemetery. When I visited the National Cathedral, I recall an elevator ride where my buddy pushed a wrong button. When we tried to get out on whatever floor that was, a fellow greeted us and said "nothing but dead people here".
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Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris...

Resting place of Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Chopin..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise_Cemetery

Totally haunted too. Saw a couple seated at our table the night before at Moulin Rouge, who didn't say a word and they were walking through the cemetery and started at us...btw, not the only time this happened. That city is home to the walking dead.

Sapper Redux
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Revere might be too strong a word. Jews don't put flowers on graves. Flowers are impermanent and die. Stones are permanent. It's a way to honor an individual and their legacy.
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Visited the US cemetery near Florence Italy last Friday. Very very nice cemetery that is home to 4800+ American heroes















Unfortunately I didn't realize until we got back home that one of our Aggie MOH recipients is buried there - George Keathley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_D._Keathley
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Been to the US cemetery in Tunisia while on a Mediterranean cruise
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All of the old cemeteries that were moved when they built the flood control dams/lakes around Central Texas. Several around Waco had McLennans and Eraths. The ones around the old ghost town of Kimball, Texas ( in Kimball Bend Park , Lake Whitney ( Texas 174 and Brazos River in Bosque County)) are exceptionally old for the area...

All of the "inhabitants" were dug up and moved but if you run the metal detector around the depressions it goes crazy.
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There's a cemetery in Cool, Texas, west of FW between Weatherford and Mineral Wells. Jack Knight is buried there, he was awarded the MoH in WWII. His brother was shot down in an A-4 in Vietnam and was MIA for, I think, 53 years before they found his remains in 2019 and buried him by his brother. I went to his service, about half of Texas was there. Almost.
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Walked through the Salt Lake City cemetery the other day, which has most of the early Mormon settlers, then came across this. The only tombstone I know that lists a website:

“If you’re going to have crime it should at least be organized crime”
-Havelock Vetinari
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2 I would add.
Ball's Bluff battlefield is about 10 minutes from me. It has not only the 3rd smallest federal cemetary in the country with only 25 graves, the only sitting US senator to ever die in combat died there. He isn't buried there but there is a plaque for him.

The other one is a cemetary that's still in use in the middle of Shenandoah National Park. Apparently when the park was created there was an agreement that the family could continue to use the cemetery, so they have special permission to use the road that goes into it. It's right along one of the popular hikes in the park.
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The Allied War Cemetery at Suda Bay, Crete, Greece. Many of those buried there were the result of the fighting during the German invasion of Crete in May, 1941. While I was there, a US submarine had docked overnight at the mouth of the bay and left the next day. Borrowed these pics from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website b/c my pics are somewhere in storage.



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I'm glad to see I'm not the only weirdo here. Of course the famous ones are cool, but I like the ones that are old, abandoned, or small. I'll try to find a few pics,

I used to see this one when I visited grandparents near Ackerly, in Dawson County

https://www.txgenwebcounties.org/dawson/risherfamily.htm
Quote:

There are several other grave sites that are marked with stones with no names or dates. My grandfather moved to that area in 1923 and he said that as far as he knew, the Risher's were a family that was just moving through Dawson County. by Danny Gillespie, 2005
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Goodnight, Texas (Southeast of Amarillo on highway 287)

[url=https://www.flickr.com/gp/chs_girls_soccer/8zA3A456P9][/url]IMG_4121 by Drifter 77, on Flickr

[url=https://www.flickr.com/gp/chs_girls_soccer/H5oTH8987o][/url]IMG_4109 by Drifter 77, on Flickr

[url=https://www.flickr.com/gp/chs_girls_soccer/5Yt0771y2F][/url]IMG_4111 by Drifter 77, on Flickr



I have no clue who this person is, but the grave was unique, to say the least. First, it seems to be an above ground vault. Next it has a window in it, facing west. Last it is covered with Alibates Flint. Alibates is only found in a small area north of Amarillo, that is now a National Monument. Today, it would be highly illegal to collect any flint from there, much less this much.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibates_Flint_Quarries_National_Monument

[url=https://www.flickr.com/gp/chs_girls_soccer/B44w215L37][/url]IMG_4113 by Drifter 77, on Flickr

[url=https://www.flickr.com/gp/chs_girls_soccer/G70gpF3013][/url]IMG_4114 by Drifter 77, on Flickr

CanyonAg77
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Before Arlington National Cemetery standardized the markers, some really unusual ones found their way there.











Sapper Redux
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New Hampshire is odd in that there are tiny cemeteries all over the place. The neighbor of a friend of mine has a 5 headstone cemetery in their backyard that's been there since the 19th century. Next time I'm up there I'll have to pay more attention for any true oddities, but they are everywhere.
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I have a cousin who sort of goes his own way. He lost a grandchild to suicide, and set aside a corner of his farm for a cemetery. They have since added his son, his ex-wife, and a neighbor and his wife

I assume that's pretty much the way those started.
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I lived across the street from the National Cathedral. One of my favorite memories was relaxing on the lawn every Sunday and reading the Washington Post.

Was fortunate to visit Pre-Lachaise Cemetery in the 90s. Was astonished by all the famous historical figures. Being a fan of the Doors, I did leave a memento on Jim Morrison's gravesite.
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