7 Items Tagged

Potters Field

Hangman's Elm

New York, New York

The Hangman's Elm

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

The Efforts to Identify the Lost Souls of America's Potter's Fields

From New York's Hart Island to Dunn County, Wisconsin, experts and volunteers alike work to provide closure to the families of those interred in unmarked graves.

Jessie Guy-Ryan May 15, 2016

"View from Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn", 1881, by Rudolph Cronau

The Manhattan Burial Crisis of 1822 Makes Every Cemetery Today Seem Amazing

Casey Hedstrom October 22, 2015

Homemade gravesites

New Orleans, Louisiana

Holt Cemetery

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

Why America's Largest Potter's Field Should Be a Public Park

Allison Meier January 13, 2014

Bronx, New York

Hart Island

The loneliest island in New York.

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Milltown Cemetery

An Irish cemetery filled with victims of political strife and violent conflict, including the grave of Bobby Sands.