Cemetery History with Preservation Durham
Cemetery History with Preservation Durham Online
- Date:
- Thursday, October 28, 2021
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- Virtual
- Audience:
- Adult Emerging Adult: 18-24 Year Olds Intergenerational Senior Citizen Teen
- Categories:
- Humanities
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Maplewood Cemetery is very nearly the only major place intimately involved with the City of Durham that has survived essentially intact from Durham’s earliest days to the present. Houses, mansions, neighborhoods, churches, factories, and schools have come and gone, but Maplewood abides. We remember other early Durham places only in books, maps, and photographs, but Maplewood is right here on the ground. The cemetery is a museum of architecture, culture, and art. It is garden of memories, an eternal city of stone. Here generations of Durham citizens are organized in neighborhoods of death much as they were in life. Durham’s history lingers here. At every turn there are rich stories of the triumphal rise and slow decline of great fortunes. Inspiring stories of philanthropy, industry, justice and progress. Stories of tender love and bitter prejudice. Stories of irony, comedy, and tragedy.
Cemetery experts from Preservation Durham will discuss the history of Maplewood and other Durham cemeteries, followed by opportunities for questions and further information on the important historic preservation projects underway in Durham.