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1. Why Study Historic Burial Grounds?

  • Richard F. Veit and Mark Nonestied
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New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones
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© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. List of Illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgments xiii
  5. 1. Why Study Historic Burial Grounds? 1
  6. 2. Early American Burial Grounds and Gravemarkers 13
  7. 3. New Jersey’s Colonial Gravemarkers 38
  8. 4. From Graveyards and Burying Grounds to Cemeteries 76
  9. 5. Victorian Valhallas: From Markers to Monuments 112
  10. 6. New Technology, New Tools: The Professionalization of the Monument Industry 155
  11. 7. New Immigrants, New Traditions 170
  12. 8. Alternative Gravemarking Traditions; or, When a Gravestone Isn’t a Gravestone 196
  13. 9. Mansions of Immortality: Mausoleums and Columbaria 218
  14. 10. Modern Marvels: The New Cemetery Aesthetic 235
  15. 11. New Jersey’s Burial Grounds Past and Present 259
  16. APPENDIX A. Burial Grounds Visited 267
  17. APPENDIX B. Gravestone Carvers Active in New Jersey 275
  18. Bibliography 289
  19. Index 305
  20. ABOUT THE AUTHORS 325
https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813545660-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. List of Illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgments xiii
  5. 1. Why Study Historic Burial Grounds? 1
  6. 2. Early American Burial Grounds and Gravemarkers 13
  7. 3. New Jersey’s Colonial Gravemarkers 38
  8. 4. From Graveyards and Burying Grounds to Cemeteries 76
  9. 5. Victorian Valhallas: From Markers to Monuments 112
  10. 6. New Technology, New Tools: The Professionalization of the Monument Industry 155
  11. 7. New Immigrants, New Traditions 170
  12. 8. Alternative Gravemarking Traditions; or, When a Gravestone Isn’t a Gravestone 196
  13. 9. Mansions of Immortality: Mausoleums and Columbaria 218
  14. 10. Modern Marvels: The New Cemetery Aesthetic 235
  15. 11. New Jersey’s Burial Grounds Past and Present 259
  16. APPENDIX A. Burial Grounds Visited 267
  17. APPENDIX B. Gravestone Carvers Active in New Jersey 275
  18. Bibliography 289
  19. Index 305
  20. ABOUT THE AUTHORS 325
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