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Book Grave Landscapes

    Book Details:
  • Author : James R. Cothran
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2018-01-31
  • ISBN : 1611177995
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Grave Landscapes written by James R. Cothran and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing urban populations prompted major changes in graveyard location, design, and use During the Industrial Revolution people flocked to American cities. Overcrowding in these areas led to packed urban graveyards that were not only unsightly, but were also a source of public health fears. The solution was a revolutionary new type of American burial ground located in the countryside just beyond the city. This rural cemetery movement, which featured beautifully landscaped grounds and sculptural monuments, is documented by James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak in Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement. The movement began in Boston, where a group of reformers that included members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society were grappling with the city's mounting burial crisis. Inspired by the naturalistic garden style and melancholy-infused commemorative landscapes that had emerged in Europe, the group established a burial ground outside of Boston on an expansive tract of undulating, wooded land and added meandering roadways, picturesque ponds, ornamental trees and shrubs, and consoling memorials. They named it Mount Auburn and officially dedicated it as a rural cemetery. This groundbreaking endeavor set a powerful precedent that prompted the creation of similarly landscaped rural cemeteries outside of growing cities first in the Northeast, then in the Midwest and South, and later in the West. These burial landscapes became a cultural phenomenon attracting not only mourners seeking solace, but also urbanites seeking relief from the frenetic confines of the city. Rural cemeteries predated America's public parks, and their popularity as picturesque retreats helped propel America's public parks movement. This beautifully illustrated volume features more than 150 historic photographs, stereographs, postcards, engravings, maps, and contemporary images that illuminate the inspiration for rural cemeteries, their physical evolution, and the nature of the landscapes they inspired. Extended profiles of twenty-four rural cemeteries reveal the cursive design features of this distinctive landscape type prior to the American Civil War and its evolution afterward. Grave Landscapes details rural cemetery design characteristics to facilitate their identification and preservation and places rural cemeteries into the broader context of American landscape design to encourage appreciation of their broader influence on the design of public spaces.

Book The Genealogical Record of the Schwenkfelder Families

Download or read book The Genealogical Record of the Schwenkfelder Families written by Samuel Kriebel Brecht and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ohio Cemetery Records

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  • Author : Elizabeth Petty Bentley
  • Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 0806310715
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Ohio Cemetery Records written by Elizabeth Petty Bentley and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1984 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises all the cemetery records originally published in the fifteen volumes of The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly between 1898 and 1912. It consists principally of tombstone inscriptions from cemeteries in the following counties in northeastern and central Ohio: Athens, Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin (including the city of Columbus), Geauga, Guernsey, Jackson, Knox, Licking, Lorain, Madison, Pickaway, Portage, Ross, Trumbull, and Vinton.

Book Report of the State Librarian

Download or read book Report of the State Librarian written by Connecticut State Library and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes special reports of which a number have appeared also separately.

Book Library Catalog

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  • Author : Daughters of the American Revolution. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1040 pages

Download or read book Library Catalog written by Daughters of the American Revolution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Periodical Source Index  1847 1985  Places

Download or read book Periodical Source Index 1847 1985 Places written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Index of the Source Records of Maryland

Download or read book An Index of the Source Records of Maryland written by Eleanor Phillips Passano and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1967 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.

Book The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record

Download or read book The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lexicon

Download or read book Lexicon written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heller Helper

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 538 pages

Download or read book The Heller Helper written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maryland Heights

Download or read book Maryland Heights written by Susan W. Frye and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Archivist of the Hall of Records

Download or read book Annual Report of the Archivist of the Hall of Records written by Maryland. Hall of Records Commission and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writings on American History

Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cyndi s List

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  • Author : Cyndi Howells
  • Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780806316789
  • Pages : 866 pages

Download or read book Cyndi s List written by Cyndi Howells and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2001 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two volume set which provides researchers with more than 70,000 links to every conceivable genealogical resource on the Internet.

Book Cemetery Records by Townships

Download or read book Cemetery Records by Townships written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes cemetery records for the cemeteries in Almont, Arcadia, Attica, Burlington, Burnside, Deerfield, Dryden, Elba, Goodland, Hadley, Imlay, Lapeer, Marathon, Mayfield, Metmora, North Branch, Oregon, and Rich Townships, and Lapeer City.