YPSILANTI TWP., MI – Looking out over an abandoned, overgrown lot tucked in an Ypsilanti Township neighborhood, it doesn’t look like a cemetery. Extensive overgrowth has since taken a toll on ...

Sayers then sold 23 acres, including Hopewell church’s former property, to Ford for $150. Ford immediately (as in the next day) donated those 23 acres to his wife Rachel.

New York: Old Trinity Church. The oldest cemetery is the one at Trinity Church in downtown Manhattan, which was probably being used as early as the 1660s, although the oldest gravestone, belonging ...

A trip to St. John's Old Cemetery in Nobber, ... As they worked clearing away the weeds and brambles, they discovered an old abandoned church, the wall of an ancient monastery, ...

People are using their old houses and they wanna make ‘em look old still,” he said. A solid wood door can be $700 or more at Home Depot. Instead, Burns is selling salvage doors for closer to $150.

Probst (geboren — or born — Probst — Sharon), born in Sudheim, Kingdom of Hannover, Germany, Jan. 3, 1809, and died 1 a.m., Feb. 21, 1850, with burial in the “New Church Cemetery”. The ...

The abandoned church at Greenbank Cemetery. (Image: ... opening in the 1830s but not doing much business until most of the old churchyards in the city centre were closed down in the 1850s.

After multiple owners, the cemetery was abandoned in the 1960s. Memorial Park Church is leading a community effort to explore ways to save and develop the cemetery.

Across the expansive, green grounds of St. John the Apostle Church in Leesburg lies a small cemetery. Beside the cemetery ...

The nonprofit Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery in Portland, Oregon, for example, raises money to help clean, maintain and repair the cemetery, and obtains its money through a mix of donations, grants ...

DULUTH — The Old Apostolic Lutheran Church is looking to develop about four acres of land adjacent to its house of worship at 3730 Martin Road into a cemetery that could one day provide a final ...