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Category : Easton (Northampton County, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Gravestone Inscriptions in Northampton County, Virginia
Author: Alice B. DealPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Portrait and Biographical Record of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon Counties, Pennsylvania
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Category : Carbon County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Ancestry magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Ancestry magazine focuses on genealogy for today’s family historian, with tips for using Ancestry.com, advice from family history experts, and success stories from genealogists across the globe. Regular features include “Found!” by Megan Smolenyak, reader-submitted heritage recipes, Howard Wolinsky’s tech-driven “NextGen,” feature articles, a timeline, how-to tips for Family Tree Maker, and insider insight to new tools and records at Ancestry.com. Ancestry magazine is published 6 times yearly by Ancestry Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com.
Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
Author: American Catholic Historical Society of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Some of the First Settlers of "the Forks of the Delaware" and Their Descendants
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Category : Easton (Northampton County, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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The Heller Helper
Author: Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean
Author: Marion F. EggePublisher: Genealogical Society of PA
ISBN: 9781887099134
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An archival book.
The Genealogical Record of the Schwenkfelder Families
Author: Samuel Kriebel BrechtPublisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1934
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Grave Landscapes
Author: James R. CothranPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611177995
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Growing urban populations prompted major changes in graveyard location, design, and use During the Industrial Revolution people flocked to American cities. Overcrowding in these areas led to packed urban graveyards that were not only unsightly, but were also a source of public health fears. The solution was a revolutionary new type of American burial ground located in the countryside just beyond the city. This rural cemetery movement, which featured beautifully landscaped grounds and sculptural monuments, is documented by James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak in Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement. The movement began in Boston, where a group of reformers that included members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society were grappling with the city's mounting burial crisis. Inspired by the naturalistic garden style and melancholy-infused commemorative landscapes that had emerged in Europe, the group established a burial ground outside of Boston on an expansive tract of undulating, wooded land and added meandering roadways, picturesque ponds, ornamental trees and shrubs, and consoling memorials. They named it Mount Auburn and officially dedicated it as a rural cemetery. This groundbreaking endeavor set a powerful precedent that prompted the creation of similarly landscaped rural cemeteries outside of growing cities first in the Northeast, then in the Midwest and South, and later in the West. These burial landscapes became a cultural phenomenon attracting not only mourners seeking solace, but also urbanites seeking relief from the frenetic confines of the city. Rural cemeteries predated America's public parks, and their popularity as picturesque retreats helped propel America's public parks movement. This beautifully illustrated volume features more than 150 historic photographs, stereographs, postcards, engravings, maps, and contemporary images that illuminate the inspiration for rural cemeteries, their physical evolution, and the nature of the landscapes they inspired. Extended profiles of twenty-four rural cemeteries reveal the cursive design features of this distinctive landscape type prior to the American Civil War and its evolution afterward. Grave Landscapes details rural cemetery design characteristics to facilitate their identification and preservation and places rural cemeteries into the broader context of American landscape design to encourage appreciation of their broader influence on the design of public spaces.
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