Keywords: Burials
Item 80030
Notice of death and burial for John Edward Barry, 1945
Contributed by: Mexico Historical Society Date: 1945 Media: Text
Item 12597
Letter of thanks, Portland, 1931
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: South Portland; South Portland; South Portland; Portland; Bergen Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Enemies at Sea, Companions in Death
Lt. William Burrows and Commander Samuel Blyth, commanders of the USS Enterprise and the HMS Boxer, led their ships and crews in Battle in Muscongus Bay on Sept. 5, 1813. The American ship was victorious, but both captains were killed. Portland staged a large and regal joint burial.
Exhibit
Anshe Sfard, Portland's Early Chassidic Congregation
Chassidic Jews who came to Portland from Eastern Europe formed a congregation in the late 19th century and, in 1917, built a synagogue -- Anshe Sfard -- on Cumberland Avenue in Portland. By the early 1960s, the congregation was largely gone. The building was demolished in 1983.
Site Page
Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
Site Page
"… Obituaries, Births and Marriages, Cemetery Burial Records, historical objects and documents, original photos GUILFORD INFORMATIONAL WEBSITES: Town…"
Story
Minik Wallace 1891-1918
by Genevieve LeMoine, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
The life of Minik, an Inuit person from Greenland who grew up in New York City.
Story
If You Knew My Story
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)
A story about incarceration in Maine
Lesson Plan
What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.
