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By
Elisabeth Walton Potter and Beth M. Boland
1992

Photo caption: The East Parish Burying Ground in Newton, Massachusetts, is an important link to the city's 17th century origins and illustrates the characteristic features of a dense concentration of tablet-type markers bearing grim epitaphs and carved imagery. (Photo by Thelma Fleishman, 1981)

Table of Contents

MISSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

BURIAL CUSTOMS AND CEMETERIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY

TYPES OF BURIAL PLACES AND ASSOCIATED FEATURES

EVALUATING CEMETERIES AND BURIAL PLACES

DOCUMENTING AND REGISTERING CEMETERIES AND BURIAL PLACES

CONCLUSION

GLOSSARY

SOME RECOMMENDED SOURCES

NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION

 

 

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