Search Results

Keywords: Headstones

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 30 Showing 3 of 30

Item 12466

Headstone of Rebeckah Lewis, Portland, 1788

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1788 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 12470

Headstone of Joshua Allen, 1805, Portland, 1966

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1966 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 12468

Joseph Stockbridge headstone, 1761, Portland, 1966

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1966 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 5 Showing 3 of 5

Exhibit

Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook

Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.

Exhibit

A Day for Remembering

Most societies have had rituals or times set aside to honor ancestors, those who have died and have paved the way for the living. Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, is the day Americans have set aside for such remembrances.

Exhibit

Samplers: Learning to Sew

Settlers' clothing had to be durable and practical to hold up against hard work and winters. From the 1700s to the mid 1800s, the women of Maine learned to sew by making samplers.

Site Pages

View All Showing 2 of 4 Showing 3 of 4

Site Page

Maine and the Civil War - Headstone, unknown Confederate soldier, Gray, 1979

"Headstone, unknown Confederate soldier, Gray, 1979 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description In 1862 a grieving Gray family…"

Site Page

Blue Hill, Maine - Looking for the Lost Cemetery

"In fact this is the oldest headstone in the town of Blue Hill. Where are all the other headstones of everyone who died before 1800? So far no one…"

Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Thompson's Memorial

"The marble shop created memorial works, including headstones and gravestones. After Thompson died in 1912, Frank Barney, his son, became the sole…"

Lesson Plans

View All Showing 1 of 1 Showing 1 of 1

Lesson Plan

Bicentennial 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.