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"Pioneer cemeteries and the settlement frontier in nineteenth- century Iowa: insights from HGIS" Gail Brown Adviser: Deryck Holdsworth

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"Pioneer cemeteries and the settlement frontier in nineteenth-century Iowa: insights from HGIS". Gail Brown Adviser: Deryck Holdsworth. Introduction. What is Historic GIS?. Louisiana Purchase. Iowa Boundaries 1840. Final Study Area. Study Area and Major Sites. Cemetery Focus. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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"Pioneer cemeteries and the settlement frontier in nineteenth-century Iowa: insights from HGIS"  

Gail BrownAdviser: Deryck Holdsworth

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Introduction

• What is Historic GIS?

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Louisiana Purchase

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Iowa Boundaries 1840

Final Study Area

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Study Area and Major Sites

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Cemetery Focus

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Define Cemetery

• Places where dead people were buried

Photo by Photographic Services, University of Iowa. 

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Define Time

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Data Sources

• Andreas Atlas maps from 1875• Iowa Abandoned Towns, David Mott  1930• A dictionary of Iowa place names,  Thomas Savage, 2007

• Iowa grave stone project• Census data from the 1900s

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Andreas Atlas Data

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Post Offices, Towns, and Cemeteries

P.O.

Cemetery

Town

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Andreas Cemetery and State Historical Society

Same?

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State Data with Andreas Plats

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Cemetery Data

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Spatial Relevance

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Conclusion

• I have know what of knowing if using GIS to map pioneer cemeteries will show patterns of historical significance.  If it does, I think my next step will be to work within the framework of the earliest settled counties in Iowa along the Mississippi River.  I have contact with several counties that do have pioneer cemeteries listed and it may be possible to begin with those.