Saratoga Monument and Prospect Cemetery

[kayre]

I tried to go to Saratoga National Historic Park today, but they were burning the grasslands, so I ended up at the Saratoga Monument instead, and the surrounding cemeteries.





It was really lovely and peaceful.



This story intrigued me; Google yields a picture of him, and the information that he died only 10 days after marrying his childhood sweetheart.



I've never seen a carving like this, with bells (as well as possibly a Masonic compass?). Click through to Flickr for the full inscription, as best I could get it without taking multiple pics.

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[onepageatatime]

Ensign MacNaughton was also of interest to me, too, because of the connection to this area. And has me wondering how widely the term "Hampton Roads" was applied a century ago. Or whether, in this case, it is referring to the body of water.

In the current day, Hampton Roads tends to be a regional appellation for all of the Seven Cities in this area (Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach) with a few areas surrounding them, though I think that usage is only a few decades old, and there is a push by some to move from using that to using Coastal Virginia, because nobody knows where Hampton Roads is.