Houston's Silent Garden: Glenwood Cemetery, 1871-2009
Introduction: Models for the landscape of death in the new world -- Glenwood chronology -- Part I: The...
Glenwood Cemetery has long offered a serene and pastoral final resting place for many of Houston's civic leaders and historic figures. In Houston's Silent Garden, Suzanne Turner and Joanne Seale Wilson reveal the story of this beautifully wooded and landscaped preserve's development—a story that is also very much entwined with the history of Houston. In 1871, recovering from Reconstruction, a group of progressive citizens...
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Introduction: Models for the landscape of death in the new world -- Glenwood chronology -- Part I: The Glenwood story -- Houston before Glenwood: burial grounds for a frontier city -- Founding of the Houston Cemetery Company: private initiative needed -- Creating the garden cemetery: layer upon layer, generation to generation -- The...