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Author | : Robin M. Lillie |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609383214 |
Download Dubuque's Forgotten Cemetery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of American settlement in Iowa. Though many local residents knew the property had once been a Catholic burial ground, they believed the graves had been moved to a new cemetery in the late nineteenth century in response to overcrowding and changing burial customs. But in 2007, when a developer broke ground for a new condominium complex here, the heavy machinery unearthed human bones. Clearly, some of Dubuque’s early settlers still rested there—in fact, more than anyone expected. For the next four years, staff with the Burials Program of the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist excavated the site so that development could proceed. The excavation fieldwork was just the beginning. Once the digging was done each summer, skeletal biologist Robin M. Lillie and archaeologist Jennifer E. Mack still faced the enormous task of teasing out life histories from fragile bones, disintegrating artifacts, and the decaying wooden coffins the families had chosen for the deceased. Poring over scant documents and sifting through old newspapers, they pieced together the story of the cemetery and its residents, a story often surprising and poignant. Weaving together science, history, and local mythology, the tale of the Third Street Cemetery provides a fascinating glimpse into Dubuque’s early years, the hardships its settlers endured, and the difficulties they did not survive. While they worked, Lillie and Mack also grappled with the legal and ethical obligations of the living to the dead. These issues are increasingly urgent as more and more of America’s unmarked (and marked) cemeteries are removed in the name of progress. Fans of forensic crime shows and novels will find here a real-world example of what can be learned from the fragments left in time’s wake.
Author | : St. Vincent Cemetery (Iowa Township, Washington County, Iowa) |
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Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 1996 |
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Download Washington County, Iowa Cemeteries, St. Vincent Cemetery, Iowa Township, Riverside, Iowa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
St. Vincent Cemetery is located about 3 miles west of Riverside in Iowa Township.
Author | : Genealogical Society of Linn County, Iowa (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
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Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 199? |
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Download Linn County, Iowa Cemeteries, Otter Creek Township Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contains Lafayette Cemetery and Alice Cemetery.
Author | : Iowa Genealogical Society (Des Moines, Iowa) |
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Release | : 1991 |
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Download Washington County, Iowa Cemeteries, Dutch Creek Township; Oak Ridge Cemetery, New Haven Cemetery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780983497806 |
Download Life and Death on the Prairie Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Iowa's Rochester Cemetery is one of the most unusual and biodiverse prairies left in America, boasting more than 400 species of plants--337 of them native to the region--on its thirteen-and-a-half acres. Among them are fifteen massive white oaks that stood watch as the surrounding landscape was converted into farmland after Euro-American settlers arrived in the 1830s. The cemetery is the last resting place of these pioneers and their descendants, down to the present. Graves and wildflowers are scattered across the hills that geologists consider sand dunes; these are held in place by the deep roots of the plants and people. Pioneer cemeteries have been recognized as important prairie remnants and seed banks ever since Aldo Leopold, another Iowa native, called attention to them in his landmark essays of the 1940s, as he developed the new field of ecological restoration. At Rochester Cemetery, the drama of the prairie's survival continues to this day, in a controversy that flares up as reliably as spring's shooting stars. To botanists across the country, this place is a pilgrimage site. To local residents, it is either a source of pride or a shameful weed lot (some feel regular mowing would show more respect for the dead). To the photographer and writer Stephen Longmire, it is a place where the stories of the rural Midwest are written on the land--a long exposure, extending back to the days when Meskwaki Indians camped nearby and wildfire held back the forest. In the creative tension between people and place, Rochester's prairie holds its native ground. Historic cemetery plantings grow wild among the native wildflowers, and bright plastic flowers decorate modern graves. In compelling photographs and prose, Longmire shows this patch of original Iowa to be a living record of all the land's uses since its settlement.
Author | : Old Fort Genealogical Society (Fort Madison, Iowa) |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Download Lee County, Iowa Cemeteries ; Fort Madison City Cemetery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Iowa Genealogical Society |
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Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1994 |
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Download Calhoun County, Iowa, Cemeteries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Webster County Genealogical Society (Webster County, Iowa) |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Download Webster County, Iowa Cemeteries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Marshall County Genealogical Society (Iowa) |
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Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1999 |
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Download Marshall County, Iowa Cemeteries, Logan Township, Fairview, Logan & Melbourne Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Names are in alphabetical order by cemetery.
Author | : Dayton Cemetery (Dayton, Iowa) |
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Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1994 |
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Download Webster County, Iowa Cemeteries ; Index to Dayton Cemetery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle