This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Odd Memorials Around the World and in the West
A look at unusual monuments from a Mayfield Kentucky family cemetery with life size statues and pets, to a Camembert cheese statue in Vimoutiers France, Prunes pioneer Louis Pellier memorials in San Jose and Fair Play, a mule memorial in Alaska, a horse cemetery at Hamburg Place Kentucky, and a vast display of memorials to dogs horses pigeons cows and notorious figures like Soapy Smith, plus a Utah Sea Gull Monument and a Wyoming skull for outlaws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayfield
Vimautiers
France
Beau Moncel
Marie Harel
Vimoutiers
Marcel
New York
Joseph Knumm
New
Calif
Louis Pellier
America
Pellier
California
Bordeaux
West
Fair Play
Cole
Alaska
Ladies of the
Golden North
Alaska-Yukon
White Pass
Klondike
George A. Parks
George Black
Yukon Territory
Inspiration Point
Dead Horse Gulch
Newstead Abbey
Nottingham
England
Lord Byron
Boatswain
Segid Pletertje Prospect
Snoqualmie
Seattle
Wash
Salt Lake City
Utah
Salt Lake Valley
Arid