LC Subject Heading: Cemeteries--Maine
Item 1191
Curtis Hill, Bryant Pond, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Woodstock Media: Photographic print
Item 76318
Plan of Universalist Cemetery, West Cumberland, 1935
Contributed by: Prince Memorial Library Date: 1935 Location: Cumberland Media: Ink on paper
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
Item 148636
Mt. Sinai Cemetery section A plan, Portland, 1969
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1969 Location: Portland Client: Mt. Sinai Cemetery Association Architect: H.I. & E.C. Jordan, surveyors
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.
