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Association for Gravestone Studies

Founded in 1977 for the purpose of furthering the study and preservation of gravestones.

Farber Gravestone Collection

An image library containing over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States. Included are 31 photographs of 14 Brookline stones. To view the Brookline stones, search by data field - City equals Brookline.

Other Massachusetts Burying Grounds

A Very Grave Matter (New England Colonial Cemeteries)

Cape Cod Gravestones

Old Burial Hill, Marblehead

Cemeteries of Martha's Vineyard

Nantucket Cemeteries

Walker-Blake Graveyard, Taunton

First and Second Burial Grounds of Woburn

Cemetery Transcription Library

Education

Gravestones and Burying Grounds 125b 2001

Gravestones and Burying Grounds 125b 2004

Course at Brown University

Teaching Tools for Local History: Cemeteries

Classroom guide from the Massachusetts Studies Project

Tiptoeing through the Tombstones

Gravestone studies at Beverly High School

Death and Dying in Puritan New England

High school curriculum from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

Regional Studies of Mortuary Customs in New England

Plymouth Colony Archive Project

Preservation

Guidelines for Evaluating and Registering Cemeteries and Burial Places

National Register of Historic Places

Historic Cemeteries Preservation Initiative

Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation

Last Updated: 9/7/07