Keywords: Headstones
Item 12466
Headstone of Rebeckah Lewis, Portland, 1788
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1788 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 12470
Headstone of Joshua Allen, 1805, Portland, 1966
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1966 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine and the Civil War - Headstone, unknown Confederate soldier, Gray, 1979
"Headstone, unknown Confederate soldier, Gray, 1979 Contributed by Maine Historical Society Description In 1862 a grieving Gray family…"
Exhibit
Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
Site Page
Blue Hill, Maine - Looking for the Lost Cemetery
"In fact this is the oldest headstone in the town of Blue Hill. Where are all the other headstones of everyone who died before 1800? So far no one…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Thompson's Memorial
"The marble shop created memorial works, including headstones and gravestones. After Thompson died in 1912, Frank Barney, his son, became the sole…"
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.
