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The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) recently announced its Community Initiative Awards for 2023. The four recipients and their projects showcase a variety of preservation …

Meet the heroes of Slate Hill

Slate Hill Burial Ground in Lower Makefield is said to be the oldest cemetery in Bucks County, with interments dating to the 1690s. The oldest tombstone has 1698 inscribed on it and the last internment occurred in 1918.

At Slate Hill, the future is the focus

When Monica Hinden looks at Slate Hill, believed to be the oldest burial ground in Bucks County, she doesn’t just see the past. She’s sees the future. A future where it is a shared community space …

Jeff Bryan has cared for the graves at Beulah Cemetery for 30 years now. Jeff doesn’t see caring for the dead as a job. It’s a calling. “I believe that God brought me to this place at this time …

By the Way: Holiday gifts for American heroes

Live evergreen wreaths, their red bows fluttering in the old hilltop cemetery, mark the veterans’ graves at the Upper Tinicum Cemetery in Upper Black Eddy during this holiday season.

Nearly 200 people attended the Northampton Township Veterans Advisory Commission’s Hometown Heroes Wreath Laying Ceremony, honoring first responders and military laid to rest at the Union …

Doylestown Post 175 VFW is still hoping to cover all 1,100 veterans’ graves at Doylestown Cemetery with a wreath on Dec. 16 during a Wreaths Across America event, being held for the first time in …

Heralding Our History: Pride surges from the ashes of “Lighthouse Hill”

The African American community has been an integral part of the local fabric from the time Newtown was founded. During the first half of the 19th century, the Leedom Farm, the Pine Grove Farm and the …

A Wreaths Across America event will be held at the Doylestown Cemetery Saturday, Dec. 16.There will be a memorial wreath-laying ceremony at 9 a.m. in the center of the cemetery, followed by the …

A Wreaths Across America event will be held at the Doylestown Cemetery Saturday, Dec. 16.There will be a memorial wreath-laying ceremony at 9 a.m. in the center of the cemetery, followed by the …

Northampton Township’s annual Hometown Heroes Wreath Laying, to honor all first responders and military interred at Union Cemetery, is set for Dec. 2 in Richboro.Union Cemetery dates back to 1855 …

Northampton Township’s annual Hometown Heroes Wreath Laying, to honor all first responders and military interred at Union Cemetery, is set for Dec. 2 in Richboro.Union Cemetery dates back to 1855 …

All of the money raised from The Lower Cemetery Tour in Frenchtown, N.J., at 2 p.m. Sunday, will benefit the local Methodist and Presbyterian food pantries.Tour-goers visit the older part of the …

All of the money raised from The Lower Cemetery Tour in Frenchtown, N.J., at 2 p.m. Sunday, will benefit the local Methodist and Presbyterian food pantries. Tour-goers visit the older part of the …

Frenchtown tour season is almost over. Only two more tours remain for 2023 – the Uptown Tour at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, and the Lower Cemetery Tour at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29.

Frenchtown tour season is almost over. Only two more tours remain for 2023 – the Uptown Tour at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, and the Lower Cemetery Tour at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29.The Uptown Tour goes …

Bucks County Coroner Meredith Buck said two veterans from the Vietnam War era and the wife of a veteran will be interred during the Unattended Veterans Service at Washington Crossing National …

For the past 3+ years, we have tended to my mother’s resting spot in St. Isidore’s Catholic Church Cemetery (in Milford Township). It is lovingly known to us as “Mary’s Meadow.”

About 200 seventh graders from Pennridge North Middle School spent about three hours doing community service at the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery and St. Stephen’s Cemetery in Perkasie ahead of …

Bucks County Coroner Meredith Buck said her office has identified five of the County’s unclaimed decedents who died between 2008 and 2010 as being United States Veterans, including a World War II …

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