New Jersey cemeteries and tombstones
Subtitle: history in the landscape
By: Richard F. Veit and Mark Nonestied.
Contributors: Nonestied, Mark.
Publisher: Rivergate Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813542355; 9780813542362
Subjects: 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; Landscape -- New Jersey -- History; New Jersey -- History, Local
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why study historic cemeteries; title: Early American burial grounds and gravemarkers; title: New Jersey's colonial gravemarkers; title: From graveyards and burying grounds to cemeteries; title: Victorian valhallas : from markers to monuments; title: New technology, new tools : the professionalization of the industry; title: New immigrants, new traditions; title: Alternative gravemarking traditions, or, When a gravestone isn't a gravestone; title: Mansions of immortality : the evolution of New Jersey mausoleums; title: Modern marvels : the new cemetery aesthetic; title: New Jersey's burial grounds past and present; title: Appendix A : cemeteries visited; title: Appendix B : New Jersey's historic stone carvers.