* Sandstone obelisk, Robertson Park, commemorating the construction of Old South Head Road ( 1811 )

Slightly northwest of the Civil War obelisk is Old Capitol Historical Marker.

There is a obelisk monument at Arlington National Cemetery where he is buried, located about behind the Lee Mansion.

A memorial obelisk was unveiled in Middleton Cemetery in 1877.

Relief portrait of Samuel Bamford on the obelisk in Middleton Cemetery

He was buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery, where a gray granite obelisk was erected to mark his grave.

* James Brainerd Taylor ( 1801 – 1829 ), maternal cousin of Brainerd ; born Middle Haddam, Connecticut ; buried in Hampden-Sydney College Church cemetery, Virginia ; obelisk in Union Hill Cemetery, Middle Haddam, Connecticut, and Princeton Cemetery of Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, New Jersey ; Lawrenceville School ( N. J ), Princeton University and Yale Divinity School-educated Second Great Awakening evangelist ; primary founder of Princeton University's Philadelphian Society of Nassau Hall ( 1825 – 1930, now called Princeton Evangelical Fellowship ); one of some 20, 000 Americans listed in Appletons ' Cyclopedia of American Biography ( 6 vol., 1887 – 89 ).

His name is recorded on the Grangetown war memorial and the obelisk in Eston Cemetery.

This was erected over Latreille's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery, and comprised a obelisk with various inscriptions, including one to the beetle which had saved Latreille's life: "" (" Necrobia ruficollis, Latreille's saviour ").

Smith died in Florence in 1861 and is interred there in the English Cemetery of Florence, his tombstone, an obelisk with a cameo portrait, was sculpted by Joel Tanner Hart.

Soaring skywards, the stone obelisk monument in memory of Dr Medhurst at the Congregationalists ' non-denominational Abney Park Cemetery

He died two days after reaching London, on 24 January 1857 and was buried at the Congregationalists ' non-denominational Abney Park Cemetery where his white stone obelisk monument can still be seen today.

More than 20, 000 Soviet soldiers lie in the Cemetery, mostly in mass graves to the left and right of the obelisk.

He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery under an obelisk erected by veterans of the VI Corps, facing the Washington Monument he completed.

Simpson family grave ( marked by the tall obelisk ), Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh

A few yards from Parque de Bombas, on Plaza Federico Degetau, sits an obelisk to their memory, and at the Cementerio Civil de Ponce ( Ponce Civil Cemetery ) a mausoleum was erected in 1911 to their memory where all seven heroes were eventually interred.

Tourgée's ashes were interred in Mayville, New York, at the Mayville Cemetery and are commemorated by a 12-foot granite obelisk inscribed thus: I pray thee then Write me as one that loves his fellow-man.

The USS Bennington Monument is a granite obelisk in the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, San Diego, California, USA.

The Brook Park Cemetery on Co Rd 126, south of MN 23, has a historical marker plaque and a memorial to the 23 victims of Brook Park, with a tall obelisk on top of a granite marker.

The most recognizable monument to Richard Stanhope Pullen for Raleigh residents is the obelisk on the Pullen family plot in Raleigh's Oakwood Cemetery.

The Aberdour obelisk was built by Lord Morton on his departure from the village to relocate to a large home in Edinburgh, it was built so he could see his former hometown from his new house when he looked through binoculars-it stands in a cowfield between the castle and the beach.

There is an obelisk, the " Scottish Political Martyrs Memorial ", the second monument ( the other is in Edinburgh ) dedicated to the leaders of the Friends of the People Society, popularly called the Scottish Martyrs, including Thomas Muir, Maurice Margarot, and Thomas Fyshe Palmer, who were transported to Australia in 1794.

The Scottish Political Martyrs ' Monument is a tall obelisk which is a prominent feature on the Edinburgh sky-line.

This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

The largest commemorates the Royal Naval dead of the two world wars ; its central obelisk is by Robert Lorimer and was unveiled in 1924, while the surrounding sunken garden was added by Edward Maufe in 1954.

It is now known as the obelisk of Theodosius and still stands in the Hippodrome, the long racetrack that was the center of Constantinople's public life and scene of political turmoil.

The Lateran obelisk was shipped to Rome soon afterwards, but the other one then spent a generation lying at the docks due to the difficulty involved in attempting to ship it to Constantinople.

Eventually, the obelisk was cracked in transit.

The Statue of Liberty project was not the only undertaking that had difficulty raising money: construction of the obelisk later known as the Washington Monument sometimes stalled for years.

In 1987, close to the palace, an obelisk was erected, in remembrance of King William II.

Three centuries after the Battle of Barnet, a stone obelisk was raised on the spot where Warwick purportedly died.

In 1901 a monument, in the form of an obelisk, was erected by public subscription, at his grave.

The broken obelisk was left at its quarrying site in Aswan, where it still remains.

He also designed the obelisk in Ripon market place, erected in 1702, at 80 feet in height it was the first large scale obelisk to be erected in Britain.

A granite obelisk at Pole Hill was erected in 1824 under the direction of the Astronomer Royal, the Rev.

It was placed on high ground along the line of the Greenwich Meridian, but when this was recalibrated later in the 19th century, the obelisk was deemed to have been erected west of the revised meridian line.

The garden, featuring a stone obelisk, a landscaped area and benches, was designed by the local council's Green Spaces Team.

A stone and brick obelisk was erected on Putney Heath in 1770, marking the 110th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, to coincide with the invention of the Hartley fire plates by David Hartley ( the Younger ), near a spot where his fireproof house was built.

Directly to the south of the churchyard stands a 12. 80 metre tall granite obelisk, which was erected in 1861 as a memorial to the Quaker philanthropist and abolitionist, Samuel Gurney ( 1766 to 1856 ).

The word " obelisk " as used in English today is of Greek rather than Egyptian origin because Herodotus, the Greek traveller, was one of the first classical writers to describe the objects.

A stone obelisk monument was erected there in 1844 by Sir John Franklin in tribute to Flinders ' achievements.