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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