Early New England Stonecutters–George Allen Sr.
George Allen Sr. (1696-1774) was described as a “New England Master of Gravestone Carving.” Allen lived and worked in Rehoboth, Massachusetts and is
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Early New England Stonecutters
New England, and in particular the Boston area, boasted some of the finest gravestone carvers of the era and to this day. Seventeenth
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Stone Portraits
Stone portraits were popular in early New England from roughly the mid 1700’s to the mid-1800s. James Blachowicz’s meticulous study captured in his
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Shell Babies AKA “Babies on the Half-Shell”
Shell babies were popular in the early 1900s as they could easily be ordered from catalogs. They emerged in the United States as
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Children’s Graves
Children are memorialized with a variety of symbols, with cherubs or baby angels being among the most common. The little lamb conveys innocence,
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