The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America by Jeffrey Smith
The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America
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Jeffrey Smith
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The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America

Jeffrey Smith

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When Mount Auburn opened as the first “rural” cemetery in the United States in 1831, it represented a new way for Americans to think about burial sites. It broke with conventional notions about graveyards as places to bury and commemorate the dead...

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