To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime. He wanted to do something ...

Behind an unassuming gate in Oxford lies a sanctuary of history and nature called Holywell Cemetery, untouched by time yet shaped by tireless hands.

The director of public works requests that anyone wanting to keep them should remove all wreaths, grave blankets and winter ...

Archaeologists have already found more than 200 tombs—and they think that might be just the tip of the iceberg.

North Cowichan’s council voted at its meeting on Feb. 6 to reverse its decision to deny a request from a veteran and a ...

Police Called Unbelievable open grave found exploring lost graveyard - metal detecting series is our latest in our new series ...

Any true historian knows that if you want to research the life of someone who died several generations ago, you’d better be willing to dig. So when local historians Phyllis Bridges and Linda Willard ...

"When I walk through a cemetery and I'm reading these names and thinking about them, they live again, just for a moment, and ...

By Linda Charlton Friday, February 7 is a big day for the community of Groveland, for that’s when the Oak Tree Union Colored ...

Several cemeteries in the nation have been finding new and unique ways to bring the living and the dead together for more ...

In response, the applicant has brought in experts to reassure neighbors that the burials at the cemetery, which would be home to 5,400 grave plots, will not hurt the well water that they drink. 'His ...

LancasterHistory will hold its first wreath-laying ceremony for Lydia Hamilton Smith on Saturday, Feb. 8, at Smith’s grave in ...