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LC Subject Heading: Cemeteries

Historical Items

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Item 1191

Curtis Hill, Bryant Pond, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Woodstock Media: Photographic print

Item 10866

Evergreen Cemetery, Houlton, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 16381

Soldiers Cemetery, Hancock Barracks, Houlton

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1829 Location: Houlton Media: Digital photograph

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111676

Receiving Tomb for Gorham Cemetery, Gorham, 1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1938 Location: Gorham Client: Gorham Cemetery Association Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Lesson Plans

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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.