Wealth in people and the value of historic Oberlin Cemetery, Raleigh, North CarolinaWealth in PeopleCemeteriesCommunity‐Based ResearchAfrican American HeritageIn its origins as a concept, wealth in people depended on the circulation and accumulation of rights and obligations among and over the living....
The Old Burying Ground was established in 1724, making it one of the oldest cemeteries in the state, and features roughly 200 gravesites from the pre-Civil War era, 45 from the Civil War years, and 150 additional stones that are dated before 1900. Other unique sites within the Beaufort ...
Too many African American cemeteries are abandoned and forgotten. For over 50 years the Pleasant Garden Cemetery in Chattanooga has suffered that fate. Established in 1890 as the city’s segregated cemetery for African Americans, the cemetery remains a powerful statement of how Jim Crow laws margina...
Hotelier Cora White entered the hospitality trade at the close of the 19th century, taking in boarders to make ends meet while her husband tended to his fledgling legal career. Business boomed, and the couple expanded their empire, purchasing several more Victorian homes, and eventually adding two...
The entrance to the cemetery is located at 330 Bonaventure Road and is the largest of the municipal cemeteries containing nearly 100 acres. The cemetery is open to the public daily from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. . The main office of the Department of Cemeteries is located in the ...
Deetz, James and Edwin Dethlefen 1966 Death’s Heads, Cherubs, and Willow Trees: Experimental Archaeology in Colonial Cemeteries. American Antiquity, Vol. 31, No. 4, April, pp. 502–510. Originally given as paper at the Society for American Archaeology Convention, Chapel Hill, N.C. in May...
President Lincoln originally established the site in 1863 as one of six national cemeteries for the interment of fallen soldiers and sailors during the Civil War. Today, the 33-acre site has more than 18,500 burials, including veterans from every major American conflict, from the Spanish American...
The Baptist Church Cemetery (South corner of Monroe and Third streets) is included in the Plymouth Historic District; there are three other cemeteries that are supporting features of individual buildings and counted as sites. The cemeteries at Grace Church (107 Madison Street) and Plymouth United ...
having refocused upon industrial and automotive chain production. In 1917, a new production facility was built upon the site of the now disused Green Lawn Cemetery. Most every body in Green Lawn had been disinterred and relocated to cemeteries around the city, mostly to Crown Hill including 61...