Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia is perhaps best know as the final resting place for 121 victims of the of the RMS Titanic sinking.

A nonsectarian burying ground, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery occupies about 90 acres, and was developed after recognition that the local churchyard was no longer servicing the needs of the community.

The Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages contains the Dorothy & Ward Melville Carriage Museum displaying almost 200 vehicles in eight galleries.

In this post I highlight the downtown area, Church Hill and the Hollywood Cemetery.

Salem was originally settled in 1766 by members of the Moravian Church, a Protestant denomination that began in the 1450’s in what is now the Czech Republic.

Boston, and neighboring Cambridge are among the most loved cities, loved for their art, culture and history. Boston Tea Party, Boston Public Garden and the Freedom Trail is a unique collection of museums, meeting houses, churches, parks and burying grounds that tell the American Revolution story.

Some 600,000 permanent residents call Green-Wood Cemetery home. Inspired in part by the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, Highgate Cemetery in London and Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, it was founded in 1838 by Henry Evelyn Pierrepont and designed by David Bates Douglass, and was one of the first rural cemeteries in America.