LC Subject Heading: Monuments--Maine
Item 13731
Stone with image similar to Jonathan Buck's gravestone, Bucksport, ca. 1800
Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: Bucksport Media: Stone
Item 17802
Wooden grave marker, New Sweden, 1894
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: 1894-12-21 Location: New Sweden Media: Wood
Item 111675
Margaret Payson Waterman monument, Gorham, 1928
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Gorham Client: John A. Waterman Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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.
