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Book Oak Hill Cemetary and Its Historic Dead

Download or read book Oak Hill Cemetary and Its Historic Dead written by Minnie S. Etter and published by . This book was released on 191? with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Oak Hill Cemetery  Goliad

Download or read book History of Oak Hill Cemetery Goliad written by The Oak Hill Cemetery Association and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oak Hill Cemetery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Lavelle (Nee Hackfeld)
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing (SC)
  • Release : 2024-01-22
  • ISBN : 9781467160889
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Oak Hill Cemetery written by Laura Lavelle (Nee Hackfeld) and published by Arcadia Publishing (SC). This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oak Hill Cemetery is a unique gem: a premier example of a 19 th century garden park cemetery hidden on a hillside in Washington, D.C.'s oldest neighborhood: Georgetown. The hill that Oak Hill now calls home was once called Parrott's Woods; a tree-covered park popular with Georgetown residents, and a favorite picnic location for the Fourth of July. In 1849, William Wilson Corcoran, a D.C. banker and philanthropist, purchased the land from a great-nephew of George Washington. Mr. Corcoran's vision for Oak Hill Cemetery was that it was to be a place for families to bury and commemorate their loved ones while at the same time being in a place of great natural beauty and inspiration for all to enjoy. Oak Hill was officially established by an act of Congress on March 3, 1849. W.W. Corcoran hired US Navy captain George de la Roche as master engineer to lay out the cemetery and design the Gatehouse. In 1850, Corcoran commissioned James Renwick Jr. to construct a small Gothic Revival Chapel; construction took three years. Oak Hill Cemetery is host to many notable historic figures and Washingtonians. Abolitionists, ambassadors, authors, artists, inventors, politicians, scholars, and soldiers rest safely in Oak Hill; and hundreds of stories have yet to be told. Today, Oak Hill is an active cemetery with a mission to serve the community, and preserve our historic grounds, structures, and records.

Book Oak Hill Cemetery History

Download or read book Oak Hill Cemetery History written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lincoln s Secretary s Secretary

Download or read book Lincoln s Secretary s Secretary written by Ann Marie Maguire and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life, times, art, and writings of Helen Nicolay

Book Oak Hill Cemetery

Download or read book Oak Hill Cemetery written by Terri L. Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oak Hill Cemetery, Birmingham's first city cemetery, is located north of the downtown area and within its walls are the gravestones of many of the city's founders, including Birmingham's first mayor, Robert Henley; William Mudd, who built Arlington Antebellum Home; several governors, and veterans from every war. Strolling through the cemetery is like walking into an outdoor classroom. From a preservation perspective, cemeteries provide essential elements of societies' collective history, including insight into past burial customs, religious beliefs, cultural and ethnic influences, community origins and development, and landscape design principles. Many remnants from the beginnings of a town or city may be lost, but cemeteries often remain as some of the last tangible links to the past.1 Oak Hill Cemetery provides that link for Birmingham. This thesis will follow Birmingham, beginning with the origination of the city as a new industrial center that grew faster than anticipated and with this came growing pains. With so many individuals moving to the city, diseases, accidents, and murders became everyday occurrences, making a City Cemetery crucial. In the second chapter we will discuss Oak Hill Cemetery specifically, including its historical significance. People viewed death in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a morbid and frightening thing, but as the nineteenth century continued and Romanticism became popular, people no longer saw death as the end of a person's life, but the beginning of a new one. Rural cemeteries such as Oak Hill became popular during this time with their welcoming park-like atmosphere. Finally, in chapter three we will continue with stories of the more famous individuals that can be found interred within Oak Hill. Every person interred there and every story told provides small pieces of a bigger historical puzzle. While many of the individuals discussed within this chapter were connected to Oak Hill only through their final resting place, they were still conduits of history that highlight not only the cemetery itself, but also the people and events that shaped the foundation of the city of Birmingham.

Book The Saga of Oak Hill Cemetery

Download or read book The Saga of Oak Hill Cemetery written by Kenneth R. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spoon River Anthology

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  • Author : Edgar Lee Masters
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-03-02
  • ISBN : 0486112101
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Spoon River Anthology written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives. /div

Book Oak Hill Cemetery Association  A History

Download or read book Oak Hill Cemetery Association A History written by Maurice J. Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Veterans of Oak Hill Cemetery

Download or read book The Veterans of Oak Hill Cemetery written by James N Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resting in Oak Hill cemetery, Battle Creek, Michigan are about 1,800 veterans from the Revolutionary War to the Middle East, including one General and two Medal of Honor recipients. Included, when possible is the name of the veteran, birth and death, enlistment and discharge, unit and information regarding their service and veteran groups after the war.

Book Respect for the Remains of the Dead

Download or read book Respect for the Remains of the Dead written by Jonathan F. Stearns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Respect for the Remains of the Dead: Address Delivered at the Consecration of Oak Hill Cemetery, in Newburyport, July 21, 1842 Respect for the remains of the dead is among the most natural and universal human sentiments. It discovers itself in all countries and duties, among the votaries of all forms of religion, and amidst every degree of knowledge and civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Oak Hill Cemetery  Or a Treatise on the Fatal Effects Resulting from the Location of Cemeteries in the Immediate Vicinity of Towns  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Oak Hill Cemetery Or a Treatise on the Fatal Effects Resulting from the Location of Cemeteries in the Immediate Vicinity of Towns Classic Reprint written by Louis Mackall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oak-Hill Cemetery, or a Treatise on the Fatal Effects Resulting From the Location of Cemeteries in the Immediate Vicinity of Towns The following Treatise is intended to awaken the people of the District, and particularly the inhabitants of Georgetown, to a sense of a most serious danger, which threatens their health and their lives; and to induce them to unite in making an effort to avert from themselves a dreadful calamity. To this end, it is proposed to state the impressions of the most intelligent communities, in relation to the practice of inhumation in or near towns: to give the opinions of learned divines, and of eminent medical men, who have patiently investigated this subject, and to present some of the facts on which these opinions and those impressions were founded. We will then proceed to show, that the establishment of the oak-hill Cemetery, in the vicinity of Georgetown, must necessarily be followed by the most fatal consequences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die

Download or read book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die written by Loren Rhoads and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.

Book The Road to Concord

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  • Author : John Leonard Bell
  • Publisher : Journal of the American Revolu
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781594162497
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Road to Concord written by John Leonard Bell and published by Journal of the American Revolu. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early spring of 1775, on a farm in Concord, Massachusetts, British army spies located four brass cannon belonging to Boston's colonial militia that had gone missing months before. British general Thomas Gage had been searching for them, both to stymie New England's growing rebellion and to erase the embarrassment of having let cannon disappear from armories under redcoat guard. Anxious to regain those weapons, he drew up plans for his troops to march nineteen miles into unfriendly territory. The Massachusetts Patriots, meanwhile, prepared to thwart the general's mission. There was one goal Gage and his enemies shared: for different reasons, they all wanted to keep the stolen cannon as secret as possible. Both sides succeeded well enough that the full story has never appeared until now. The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War by historian J. L. Bell reveals a new dimension to the start of America's War for Independence by tracing the spark of its first battle back to little-known events beginning in September 1774. Drawing on archives in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, the book creates a lively, original, and deeply documented picture of a society perched on the brink of war.

Book Oak Hill Cemetery

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  • Author : Larry Linney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 200?
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Oak Hill Cemetery written by Larry Linney and published by . This book was released on 200? with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Tour of Oak Hill Cemetery

Download or read book Historical Tour of Oak Hill Cemetery written by Oak Hill Memorial Association (Birmingham, Ala.) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes program for "Oak Hill Day," map of the cemetery, and self-guided tour information with brief descriptions of some of Birmingham's earliest founding citizens who are buried there.

Book A History of Birmingham and Its Environs

Download or read book A History of Birmingham and Its Environs written by George M. Cruikshank and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: