New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape Book

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xiii
1 Why Study Historic Burial Grounds? 1
2 Early American Burial Grounds and Gravemarkers 13
3 New Jersey's Colonial Gravemarkers 38
4 From Graveyards and Burying Grounds to Cemeteries 76
5 Victorian Valhallas: From Markers to Monuments 112
6 New Technology, New Tools: The Professionalization of the Monument Industry 155
7 New Immigrants, New Traditions 170
8 Alternative Gravemarking Traditions; or, When a Gravestone Isn't a Gravestone 196
9 Mansions of Immortality: Mausoleums and Columbaria 218
10 Modern Marvels: The New Cemetery Aesthetic 235
11 New Jersey's Burial Grounds Past and Present 259 Appendix A Burial Grounds Visited 267 Appendix B Gravestone Carvers Active in New Jersey 275 Bibliography 289 Index 305