Download or read book Remarks Addressed to the Citizens of Charleston on the Subject of Interments and the Policy of Establishing a Public Cemetery Beyond the Precincts of the City written by Henry Laurens Pinckney and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Death and Rebirth in a Southern City written by Ryan K. Smith and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant example of public history, Death and Rebirth in a Southern City reveals how cemeteries can frame changes in politics and society across time.
Download or read book Charleston Charleston written by Walter J. Fraser, Jr. and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often called the most "Southern" of Southern cities, Charleston was one of the earliest urban centers in North America. It quickly became a boisterous, brawling sea city trading with distant ports, and later a capital of the Lowcountry plantations, a Southern cultural oasis, and a summer home for planters. In this city, the Civil War began. And now, in the twentieth century, its metropolitan area has evolved into a microcosm of "the military-industrial complex." This book records Charleston's development from 1670 and ends with an afterword on the effects of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, drawing with special care on information from every facet of the city's life—its people and institutions; its art and architecture; its recreational, social and intellectual life; its politics and city government. The most complete social, political, and cultural history of Charleston, this book is a treasure chest for historians and for anyone interested in delving into this lovely city, layer by layer.
Download or read book Remarks Addressed to the Citizens of Charleston on the Subject of Interments written by Henry Laurens Pinckney and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
Download or read book Subject Catalog of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Madison Wisconsin written by State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library and published by Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Conception of Death in America 1650 1860 written by Charley Shively and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1988 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue phase 1 1816 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Checklist of American Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Committee of the City of Charleston Upon Interments Within the City and the Memorial from Churches and Citizens written by Charleston (S.C.). City Council. Committee Upon Interments Within the City and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Committee of the City Council of Charleston written by Charleston (S.C.). City Council. Committee Upon Interments Within the City and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Citizens of Charleston on the Incendiary Machinations written by Charleston (S.C.). Citizens and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Death Among the Palmettos written by Anne Marie Martin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using burial as a way to view social and political anxieties in the Antebellum South, "Death Among the Palmettos: Southern Burial Practices and Society, 1775 - 1850" argues that the treatment of the dead was based squarely in the social concerns and situation surrounding the living. Specifically examining Charleston, South Carolina, the ways people used burial to make statements about themselves and their class standing both established their status in an ever-shifting society while simultaneously regulating it in ways that became exclusionary to others. Considering Charleston as a microcosm of statewide and national tensions over class, economics, and slavery, I argue that the concerns over these uncertainties played out in Charleston's churchyards and cemeteries as well as in the city's daily life. When Magnolia Cemetery opened on the outskirts of Charleston, South Carolina in 1850, it seemed to address many of the problems that had plagued the city for years. Due to disease, epidemics, and natural disasters, over its nearly two hundred year history, Charleston gained a deserved reputation as an especially deadly place. While religious intuitions throughout the city maintained their own cemeteries, these were restricted on the basis of both class and race. Charlestonians who were poor or non-white found themselves relegated to public city lots. Following the Revolution, these groups will debate the roll of race and class in cemetery construction, and fight for space for independent cemetery construction. For the city's post-Revolutionary government, burial laws will offer a new way to establish authority. Throughout the nineteenth century, city residents saw changes with the introduction of new religious groups, evolving ideas about the cause of disease, and an increase in migrants from different parts of Europe. These developments, combined with the concerns upper class Charlestonians had over their waning influence in both state and national politics, led to uncertainty and a resistance to change on the part of Charleston's elites.
Download or read book PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITIZENS OF written by Charleston (S C. ). Citizens and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Western Christian Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
