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Green Mount Cemetery,Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, 21202 USA : Mount Cemetery was one of the earliest rural or garden cemeteries in the United States. Samuel Walker, a Baltimore tobacco merchant, led the campaign to establish the Cemetery after visiting Mount Auburn Cemetery in 1834.After a successful campaign, Walker, and a group of gentlemen drew up the plans for a public cemetery. The...
Colonial Lords of Manors =Some of the people who financed and promoted the American colonies envisioned a new world similar to the world they knew in Europe. In many cases, this vision led them to try transplanting the remnants of feudalism, including the manorial and seigneurial systems that were the cornerstone of economic life.The American lords of manors (and their equivalents) often derive...