A tour of New Jersey's burial sites from the seventeenth century onwards. This book shows how headstones are much more than place markers for the deceased. It explains what cemeteries and their gravemarkers say about different individuals and the communities in which they lived.
A tour of New Jersey's burial sites from the seventeenth century onwards. This book shows how headstones are much more than place markers for the deceased. It explains what cemeteries and their gravemarkers say about different individuals and the communities in which they lived.
RICHARD VEIT is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University. He is the author of Digging New Jersey's Past: Historical Archaeology in the Garden State, winner of the 2003 New Jersey Historic Preservation Award. MARK NONESTIED has been a staff member of the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission since 1991. He currently serves as the Director of Exhibits and Programs at a historic site in Piscataway.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Why Study Historic Burial Grounds? 2. Early American Burial Grounds and Gravemarkers 3. New Jersey's Colonial Gravemarkers 4. From Graveyards and Burying Grounds to Cemeteries 5. Victorian Valhallas: From Markers to Monuments 6. New Technology, New Tools: The Professionalization of the Monument Industry 7. New Immigrants, New Traditions 8. Alternative Gravemarking Traditions; or, When a Gravestone Isn't a Gravestone 9. Mansions of Immortality: Mausoleums and Columbaria 10. Modern Marvels: The New Cemetery Aesthetic 11. New Jersey's Burial Grounds Past and Present Appendix A: Burial Grounds Visited Appendix B: Gravestone Carvers Active in New Jersey Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Why Study Historic Burial Grounds? 2. Early American Burial Grounds and Gravemarkers 3. New Jersey's Colonial Gravemarkers 4. From Graveyards and Burying Grounds to Cemeteries 5. Victorian Valhallas: From Markers to Monuments 6. New Technology, New Tools: The Professionalization of the Monument Industry 7. New Immigrants, New Traditions 8. Alternative Gravemarking Traditions; or, When a Gravestone Isn't a Gravestone 9. Mansions of Immortality: Mausoleums and Columbaria 10. Modern Marvels: The New Cemetery Aesthetic 11. New Jersey's Burial Grounds Past and Present Appendix A: Burial Grounds Visited Appendix B: Gravestone Carvers Active in New Jersey Bibliography Index
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