LC Subject Heading: Monuments
Item 15750
Monument dedication invitation, South Portland, 1897
Contributed by: South Portland Historical Society Date: 1897 Location: South Portland; Cape Elizabeth Media: Ink on paper
Item 103184
Monument Square traffic, Portland, 1921
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1921 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 151502
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.
