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Author :Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution. Freedom Hill Chapter Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :118 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (229 download)
Book Synopsis Richmond County, Virginia Cemeteries by : Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution. Freedom Hill Chapter
Download or read book Richmond County, Virginia Cemeteries written by Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution. Freedom Hill Chapter and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Death and Rebirth in a Southern City by : Ryan K. Smith
Download or read book Death and Rebirth in a Southern City written by Ryan K. Smith and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of Richmond's burial landscape over the past 300 years reveals in illuminating detail how racism and the color line have consistently shaped death, burial, and remembrance in this storied Southern capital. Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds show the sweep of Southern history on an epic scale, from the earliest English encounters with the Powhatan at the falls of the James River through slavery, the Civil War, and the long reckoning that followed. And while the region's deathways and burial practices have developed in surprising directions over these centuries, one element has remained stubbornly the same: the color line. But something different is happening now. The latest phase of this history points to a quiet revolution taking place in Virginia and beyond. Where white leaders long bolstered their heritage and authority with a disregard for the graves of the disenfranchised, today activist groups have stepped forward to reorganize and reclaim the commemorative landscape for the remains of people of color and religious minorities. In Death and Rebirth in a Southern City, Ryan K. Smith explores more than a dozen of Richmond's most historically and culturally significant cemeteries. He traces the disparities between those grounds which have been well-maintained, preserving the legacies of privileged whites, and those that have been worn away, dug up, and built over, erasing the memories of African Americans and indigenous tribes. Drawing on extensive oral histories and archival research, Smith unearths the heritage of these marginalized communities and explains what the city must do to conserve these gravesites and bring racial equity to these arenas for public memory. He also shows how the ongoing recovery efforts point to a redefinition of Confederate memory and the possibility of a rebirthed community in the symbolic center of the South. The book encompasses, among others, St. John's colonial churchyard; African burial grounds in Shockoe Bottom and on Shockoe Hill; Hebrew Cemetery; Hollywood Cemetery, with its 18,000 Confederate dead; Richmond National Cemetery; and Evergreen Cemetery, home to tens of thousands of black burials from the Jim Crow era. Smith's rich analysis of the surviving grounds documents many of these sites for the first time and is enhanced by an accompanying website, www.richmondcemeteries.org. A brilliant example of public history, Death and Rebirth in a Southern City reveals how cemeteries can frame changes in politics and society across time.
Book Synopsis Virginia DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report by : Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution
Download or read book Virginia DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report written by Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women Writers Buried in Virginia by : Sharon Pajka
Download or read book Women Writers Buried in Virginia written by Sharon Pajka and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has an array of women writers who have made history--and many of them lived, died and were buried in Virginia.(/b> Gothic novelists, writers of Westerns and African American poets, these writers include a Pulitzer Prize winner, the first woman writer to be named Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the first woman to top the best-seller lists in the twentieth century. Mary Roberts Rinehart was a bestselling mystery author often called "the American Agatha Christie." Anne Spencer was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. V. C. Andrews was so popular that when she died a court ruled that her name was taxable, and the poetry of Susan Archer Talley Weiss received praise from Edgar Allan Poe. Professor and cemetery history enthusiast Sharon Pajka has written a guide to their accomplishments in life and to their final resting places.
Book Synopsis Richmond Cemeteries by : Christine Stoddard
Download or read book Richmond Cemeteries written by Christine Stoddard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy and once one of the most prosperous cities in the United States, is home to a range of cemeteries that tell the story of American trends in honoring the dead. African slaves were interred in Shockoe Bottoms so-called burial ground for negroes, US presidents James Monroe and John Tyler were buried in Hollywood Cemetery, and Civil War soldiers were commemorated throughout the metropolis; indeed, the River City has laid blacks and whites to rest in flood zones and on rolling hills alike. During and shortly after the Civil War, Richmond worked to accommodate thousands of new graves. Today, Richmonders work to preserve and celebrate the past while making way for the future.
Book Synopsis Burial Record, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia (surnames A-B Only) by : Worth Potter
Download or read book Burial Record, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia (surnames A-B Only) written by Worth Potter and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hidden History written by Lynn Rainville and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hidden History, Lynn Rainville travels through the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the black families who lived and worked there for over two hundred years. The subjects of Rainville’s research are not statesmen or plantation elites; they are hidden residents, people who are typically underrepresented in historical research but whose stories are essential for a complete understanding of our national past. Rainville studied above-ground funerary remains in over 150 historic African American cemeteries to provide an overview of mortuary and funerary practices from the late eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Combining historical, anthropological, and archaeological perspectives, she analyzes documents—such as wills, obituaries, and letters—as well as gravestones and graveside offerings. Rainville’s findings shed light on family genealogies, the rise and fall of segregation, and attitudes toward religion and death. As many of these cemeteries are either endangered or already destroyed, the book includes a discussion on the challenges of preservation and how the reader may visit, and help preserve, these valuable cultural assets.
Download or read book Richmond County Cemeteries written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hollywood Cemetery by : Mary H. Mitchell
Download or read book Hollywood Cemetery written by Mary H. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gravestone Inscriptions in Northampton County, Virginia by : Alice B. Deal
Download or read book Gravestone Inscriptions in Northampton County, Virginia written by Alice B. Deal and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rescued from Oblivion by : John S. Kindred
Download or read book Rescued from Oblivion written by John S. Kindred and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Confederate Burials, Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia by : Raymond Wesley Watkins
Download or read book Confederate Burials, Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia written by Raymond Wesley Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists of burials are incomplete.
Book Synopsis Works Progress Administration of Virginia Historical Inventory by : Madge Goodrich
Download or read book Works Progress Administration of Virginia Historical Inventory written by Madge Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Richmond, Virginia, Lost Souls Restored by : Nancy C. Frantel
Download or read book Richmond, Virginia, Lost Souls Restored written by Nancy C. Frantel and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the surface of a quiet hillside in Richmond, Virginia, lies important history. The hillside holds the unmarked remains of African-Americans in a cemetery named Mt. Olivet. What started out as a basic interment register transcription by the author turned into tracking evidence on a trail of unsettling activities that took place on land she considered sacred. With over 1,300 interments listed, Frantel's goal was to bring light to those who time had forgotten. Instead, what she discovered was entry after entry listing gravesites as "reopened" or "with another" indicating multiple burials in the same grave. Much of the surface provided few clues regarding individual interments, therefore the author hired an engineering firm to conduct ground penetrating radar on portions of the site. The 2-D and 3-D images retrieved as a result are shocking. The below-ground disturbance indications document the distressing, questionable cemetery activities from that time. The signal sent back from the GPR beckons us to consider the message from the past. Consider the inaudible child, who was interred on May 27, 1901 and died from "want of attention,"-she may have the loudest voice of all. The book includes the register's front name index which is arranged partially alphabetically by surname, and includes: full name and page number. The interment entries are listed chronologically and include (as available): full name, date interred, age, marital status, gender, cause of death, partial gravesite location information and remarks. An appendix provides the local Mayor's humble speech from 1878 indicating his concern for the "lack of securely marked grave locations" at the cemetery. An editorial apparatus, bibliography and full name index complete the work.
Book Synopsis Richmond District Cemeteries, Raleigh County, West Virginia by : Pauline A. Haga
Download or read book Richmond District Cemeteries, Raleigh County, West Virginia written by Pauline A. Haga and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roll of Honor written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Names of soldiers who died in defense of the American union, interred in the national and public cemeteries" (varies).
Book Synopsis Poems from the Northern Neck by : Gregg Valenzuela
Download or read book Poems from the Northern Neck written by Gregg Valenzuela and published by Brandylane Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this collection reflect Gregg Valenzuela's passion for the history, rural culture, land and the people of Virginia's Tidewater and Northern Neck. Like his poetry, this singular place reveals a multitude of layers, textures, moods, as well as a rare and unforgettable beauty.
