Cemeteries
Mapping cemeteries for class – how students used phones and drones to help a city count its headstones
Mapping cemeteries for class – how students used phones and drones to help a city count its headstones Miami University students, under the guidance of an environmental scientist, used geospatial technology tools to map a historic cemetery in Oxford, Ohio, which had over 6,000 headstones and no digital records. The project, which took about six […]
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Symbolism of cemetery plants: How flowers, trees and other botanical motifs honor those buried beneath
Symbolism of cemetery plants: How flowers, trees and other botanical motifs honor those buried beneath The use of plants in cemeteries dates back to the early 1800s, when rural cemeteries were developed outside city limits to address overcrowding and pollution issues. Cemetery plants were chosen for their symbolic meanings, such as weeping willow trees representing […]
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