Download or read book Guide to Historic Burial Grounds in Newport A written by Lewis Keen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While now known as America's summer playground, Newport was at one time the nation's fifth-largest seaport, containing a diverse population that is reflected in its burial sites. Of special significance is the largest marked site for eighteenth-century African Americans in the country, as well as the oldest surviving colonial Jewish burial site. Notable burials include those for William Ellery, who signed the Declaration of Independence, and Richard Morris Hunt, the eminent nineteenth-century architect. It is also home to John Stevens, a noted gravestone carver who led six generations of his family to create exquisite stones throughout the city. Those same traditions are carried on today by the Benson family, America's premier stone carvers. Join local author and tour guide Lewis Keen as he explores the fascinating history behind the city's early burial grounds.
Download or read book Guide to Historic Burial Grounds in Newport written by Lewis Keen and published by History Press. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While now known as America's summer playground, Newport was at one time the nation's fifth-largest seaport, containing a diverse population that is reflected in its burial sites. Of special significance is the largest marked site for eighteenth-century African Americans in the country, as well as the oldest surviving colonial Jewish burial site. Notable burials include those for William Ellery, who signed the Declaration of Independence, and Richard Morris Hunt, the eminent nineteenth-century architect. It is also home to John Stevens, a noted gravestone carver who led six generations of his family to create exquisite stones throughout the city. Those same traditions are carried on today by the Benson family, America's premier stone carvers. Join local author and tour guide Lewis Keen as he explores the fascinating history behind the city's early burial grounds.
Download or read book Stones and Bones of New England written by Lisa Rogak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's for their solace and beauty or for the sense of history that seeps from the ground, cemeteries are fascinating places to visit, this guide shows where to find the most interesting and unusual ones in all of New England. Some have headstones that are fine art, others are associated with notorious events, and others are the final resting place of famous poets, soldiers, and statesmen. Included are large public facilities as well as the small family burying grounds hidden away behind crumbling stone walls and along once-cultivated farmland. A sampling of cemeteries profiled: *Hope Cemetery in Barre, Vermont, where lifelike sculptures of angels and Greek goddesses stand next to a stone soccer ball and Shell Oil truck gravemarker, all elaborately carved from local granite by immigrant Italian stonecutters. *Spider Gates Cemetery, in Leicester, Massachusetts, a notorious Quaker burying ground famed for its frequent ghost sightings and still in use today. *A cemetery situated on the raised median of the Interstate in Warner, New Hampshire,which was preserved in 1970 by highway planners, who constructed the roadway around it. *Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, Vermont, final resting place of Timothy Clark Smith, whose 1893 crypt includes a window to help him escape in case he was buried alive. Driving directions are provided for each cemetery, and detailed maps show the location of the more obscure graveyards. This unique guide offers an intriguing way to learn about the history and culture of New England.
Download or read book Newport Rhode Island Colonial Burial Grounds written by John E. Sterling and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cemetery Tours and Programming written by Rachel Wolgemuth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cemetery Tours and Programming: A Guide shows the range and opportunities of cemetery programming that go beyond basic starting points like dog-walking or traditional historic walking tours. It illustrates the reuses of both historic and contemporary burial grounds through the lenses of recreation, education, and reflection. This guide takes readers through the historical roots of cemetery programming, options for creating diverse programming, and step-by-step suggestions for executing events. While most cemeteries do not have a large paid staff, this book is accessible to anyone (paid staff members, volunteers, a Friends Group, or museum or historical society) looking to broaden the scope of how their local cemetery is utilized.
Download or read book The History of the Newport Country Club written by Frederick Waterman and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grave Intentions written by Christine Van Voorhies and published by Historic Chattahoochee Commission. This book was released on 2003 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-read guidebook gives great information on cleaning up a graveyard and tombstones, getting access to gravesites, funding your project, handling threats to graves, and legal issues.
Download or read book Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey written by Janice Kohl Sarapin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated guidebook to New Jersey's old burial grounds is unique, not just for New Jersey, but for anywhere in America. Janice Kohl Sarapin introduces you to the history and lore of old graveyards. She shows you how to read epitaphs, how to date gravestones by style, how to restore an abandoned graveyard, and how to find out the stories of the people buried there. She describes more than 120 fascinating old burial grounds throughout the state (including the cemeteries of African-Americans, Jewish communities, and other ethnic and religious groups). She provides full directions and details about what makes each one special as well as suggestions for planning your visit and for educational activities to use with children and adults.
Download or read book New England Cemeteries written by Andrew Kull and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Graveyard Shift written by Carolee R. Inskeep and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to find some peace in the City That Never Sleeps"" has always been difficult-even for dead New Yorkers. Rapid development, rising property values, a lack of space, health concerns, and government regulation have all conspired to move the dead from one graveyard to the next. The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries documents the changing landscape of New York City cemeteries, telling the story behind each decision to move, as well as providing the new names and locations of each burial ground. This book, with its complete index, is an invaluable tool for anyone researching New York City ancestors.""
Download or read book The Very Quiet Baltimoreans written by Jane Bromley Wilson and published by White Mane Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mirror of Baltimore and its population, an unsurpassed reference tool for genealogists, a collection of stories about Baltimore's famous and obscure, this is an unusual book. Jane B. Wilson here uses cemeteries to show us more than the graves of Baltimore's famous, infamous, everyday, and anonymous citizens and soldiers. She demonstrates how the cemeteries' creation and dissolution reflect the greed, courage, wit, loyalty, carelessness, and spirituality of Maryland's citizens.
Download or read book Preservation of Historic Burial Grounds written by Lynette Strangstad and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OAKWOOD CEMETERY written by Robert M. Sheer and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln, a yellow brick, an 80-ton boulder, Aunt Jemima, a stolen skull and the ashes of a former Yankee great ... take a look inside historic Oakwood-Morningside Cemetery: Included are brief biographical sketches of more than 250 permanent residents of Syracuse where many of the more prominent men and women who built the Salt City rest today.
Download or read book A Visitor s Guide to Colonial Revolutionary New England Interesting Sites to Visit Lodging Dining Things to Do Second Edition written by Robert Foulke and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Colonial and Revolutionary New England that includes historical details, timelines, photographs, background stories, and lodging and restaurant information for travelers exploring the area.
Download or read book A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries written by David Allen Lambert and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes town by town listing of all known cemeteries and burial grounds in the state, year of town incorporation, year of consecration of the cemetery or oldest known gravestone or burial. address or location of cemetery as well as contact information and key sources that mention the cemetery.
Download or read book Mare Island Cemetery Volume Two written by Peggy O'Drain and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret (Peggy) O'Drain lives in Richmond, California, and a retired State employee. She was a longtime tour guide and volunteer with Mare Island Historic Park Foundation. Discovery of the aging, neglected cemetery at Mare Island offered the perfect opportunity to combine a life-long interest in all things historical with an undeniable attraction to old burial grounds. Her goal is to preserve a place in history for Mare Island, with stories of those who will forever remain on Mare Island. Joyce Giles (co-author) lives in Vallejo, California, a former employee of Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and long time volunteer with Mare Island Historic Park Foundation as tour guide, docent, and manager of Mare Island Museum. She assisted Peggy in the first publication about the cemetery and after several years of seeing the cemetery in neglected stage, wanted to update the previous publication to include Section A (officer burials), and also an afterward showing the rebirth with new irrigation, fencing, cleaned tombstones, and clean up after the fires of 2019, and also an index.
Download or read book A Topographical and Historical Guide to the Isle of Wight Etc With Plates and Maps written by Thomas Brettell and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
