New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones : History in the Landscape.

New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones : History in the Landscape.

In this sweeping tour of New Jerseys burial sites from the seventeenth century through the dawn of the twenty-first, readers will discover how headstones are much more than place markers for the deceased. From the earliest memorials that were once used by Native Americans, to some of the elaborate s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Veit, Richard F.
Other Authors: Nonestied, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
Series:Rivergate Ser.
Subjects:
Cemeteries > New Jersey.
Historic sites > New Jersey.
Sepulchral monuments > New Jersey.
Landscape architecture > New Jersey.
Cemeteries > New Jersey > History.
Sepulchral monuments > New Jersey > History.
Burial > New Jersey > History.
Landscapes > New Jersey > History.
HISTORY / General.
Burial
Cemeteries
Historic sites
Landscape architecture
Landscapes
Sepulchral monuments
New Jersey > History, Local.
New Jersey
History
Local history
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Why Study Historic Burial Grounds?; Chapter 2: Early American Burial Grounds and Gravemarkers; Chapter 3: New Jersey's Colonial Gravemarkers; Chapter 4: From Graveyards and Burying Grounds to Cemeteries; Chapter 5: Victorian Valhallas: From Markers to Monuments; Chapter 6: New Technology, New Tools: The Professionalization of the Monument Industry; Chapter 7: New Immigrants, New Traditions; Chapter 8: Alternative Gravemarking Traditions; or, When a Gravestone Isn't a Gravestone.

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