New Jersey cemeteries and tombstones : history in the landscape / Richard F. Veit, Mark Nonestied.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303) and index.

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.

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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.

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