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Author Veit, Richard F., 1968-

Title New Jersey cemeteries and tombstones : history in the landscape / Richard F. Veit, Mark Nonestied
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rivergate Books, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 324 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Why study historic cemeteries -- Early American burial grounds and gravemarkers -- New Jersey's colonial gravemarkers -- From graveyards and burying grounds to cemeteries -- Victorian valhallas : from markers to monuments -- New technology, new tools : the professionalization of the industry -- New immigrants, new traditions -- Alternative gravemarking traditions, or, When a gravestone isn't a gravestone -- Mansions of immortality : the evolution of New Jersey mausoleums -- Modern marvels : the new cemetery aesthetic -- New Jersey's burial grounds past and present -- Appendix A : cemeteries visited -- Appendix B : New Jersey's historic stone carvers
Summary In this sweeping tour of New Jersey's 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 structures of the present day, historians Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied use grave markers to tell an off-beat account of New Jersey's history that is both fascinating and unique. In detailed descriptions, the authors explain what cemeteries and their gravemarkers say about different individuals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303) and index
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Subject 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
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
Burial
Cemeteries
Historic sites
Landscape architecture
Landscapes
Sepulchral monuments
Friedhof.
Grab.
Grabmal.
SUBJECT New Jersey -- History, Local
Subject New Jersey
New Jersey.
Genre/Form History
Local history
Form Electronic book
Author Nonestied, Mark.
ISBN 9780813545660
0813545668
1281801755
9781281801753
9786611801755
6611801758