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!
Unusual Monuments Across the World Preserve Odd Memorials
A Kansas Mayfield cemetery houses life size statues of a dead family and their pets, while France displays a Camembert cheese monument. Other tributes include a prune industry founder in San Jose, a drift of memorials to horses and dogs from Alaska to Kentucky, the Salt Lake Sea Gull monument, and a dramatic Soapy Smith skull on an Alaskan cliff. The piece notes quirky tributes and dubious figures, ending with Segis Pietertje Prospect the world champion cow honored by Carnation Milk Farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayfield
Vimoutiers
France
Beau Moncel
Marie Harel
Marcel
New York
Joseph Karim
San Jose
Calif
Louis Pellier
America
Pellier
California
Bordeaux
West
Fair Play
Cole
Alaska
Ladies of the
Golden North
Alaska-Yukon
White Pass
Helondike
George A. Parks
George Black
Yukon Territory
Inspiration Point
Dead Horse Gulch
Lexington
Winchester Pike
Hamburg Place
J. E. Madden
Nancy
Newstead Abbey
Nottingham
England
Lord Byron
Boatswain
Dog
Segis Pietertje Prospect
Snoqualmie River
Seattle
Wash
Salt Lake City
Utah
Salt Lake Valley
Alaskan
Smith
Klondike
Arctic Brotherhood
Douglas
Wyo
Carnation Milk Farms