This is the first history of the rural cemetery movement, examining these burial grounds through thematic chapters. Rural Cemetery Movement. B. in the early 1900s. B. cholera. October 2017. by Molly McBride Jacobson October 6, 2016. Transcript: Sarah: In so many cities and small towns across America, somewhere on the edge of town or on what was once the edge of town, there is a big, sprawling park-like cemetery. The History Buffs Podcast, May 29, 2016. A. in the 1830s. Rural Cemetery Movement. The "Rural" Cemetery Movement and its Impact on American Landscape Design . The solution was a revolutionary new type of American burial ground located in the countryside just beyond the city. The Rural Cemetery Movement influenced the Kline Cemetery and other cemeteries in Tompkins County. 31 Days Of Halloween. In 1831, Auburn Cemetery was laid out in a rural setting outside of Boston as a park-like resting place for the dead. Oliver M. Whipple, the self-made gunpowder manufacturer and civic leader, was the leading spirit in founding Lowell's rural cemetery. C. plague. This rural cemetery movement, which featured beautifully landscaped grounds and sculptural monuments, is documented by James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak in Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement. The concept of permanent family lots in a setting of natural beauty was immensely popular. 21 likes. The Rural Cemetery Movement greatly expanded green urban space during the mid-1800’s and was instrumental in the development of the Urban Parks Movement. The "rural" cemetery movement, influenced by European trends in gardening and landscape design, in turn had a major impact on American landscape design. October 25, 2014. Rural Cemetery Movement Grows. 18. This book examines these “rural” cemeteries modeled after Mount Auburn that were founded between the 1830s and 1850s. D. leprosy. The rural cemetery movement provides the earliest and most revealing insight into this new ideology in Lowell and in America. As Mount Auburn Cemetery, the first rural cemetery in the United States, gained national and international attention, other cities began to plan their own rural cemeteries. C. during the Spanish American War. The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America breaks new ground in the history of cemeteries in the nineteenth century. D. during the Civil War. C. plague. The history of the rural cemetery movement, which brought Victorians to picnic among tombstones. The 174-acre Mount Auburn Rural Cemetery is important because it started a rural cemetery movement across the country. (p. 105) The danse macabre was originally a reaction to fear of death caused by an epidemic of A. tuberculosis. By Mount Auburn Cemetery. The Proprietors were incorporated on January 104) The rural cemetery movement began in the United States A. in the 1830s. Sarah Handley-Cousins & Elizabeth Garner Masarik.