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25th Apr 2012 04:59 UTCRick Dalrymple Expert
The dates on many of them are prior to 1900 and some of them go back to the 1860's .
Any thoughts ???
25th Apr 2012 11:14 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
25th Apr 2012 12:49 UTCTom Klinepeter
25th Apr 2012 13:01 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.
25th Apr 2012 14:17 UTCEarl Verbeek Expert
25th Apr 2012 14:23 UTCBart Cannon
This post inspires me.
There is absolutely nothing morbid about honoring dead miners. They made our lives possible with zero recognition.
Barely a mle from the Green River Gorge realgar localities is the Franklin Cemetary. Franklin was a bustling coal mining town at the turn fo the century near Black Diamond in South central King County Washington. Near Seattle. There is no trace left of Franklin except for that deteriorating little cemetary perched directly and precariously above the Green River Gorge.
Back in 2000 I had a girlfriend who was a photographer. Pre-digital era. I took her to every curious photo-op in that part of the county.
To her, nothing was worth film and processing. Including the proudest monument in the Franklin Cemetary. That would be OK except that the guy in the ground was a Duffy. Her mother's maiden name !! And her mother is a family history advocate.
There are so many strange thing in that little Appalachia part of Washington that it's hard to list them, but there is a haunted resort with a catwalk down into the gorge, a guy with an 8 foot long mailbox designed to look like the Beatle's Yellow Submarine, and a Cadillac graveyard not far from the Franklin graveyard.
I'm heading back down there and taking a photo of every headstone before they slide into the Green River Gorge.
Bart
25th Apr 2012 16:24 UTCBob Jackson Expert
Bob
25th Apr 2012 16:53 UTCFrank de Wit Manager
-> http://www.strahlen.org/vp/ro/sapanta/
Cheers, Frank
25th Apr 2012 17:18 UTCAmir C. Akhavan Expert
They are simply great.
25th Apr 2012 20:51 UTCScott Sadlocha
25th Apr 2012 22:00 UTCRoberto Bosi
P.S: My wife agree with yours, she thinks I'm a little...barmy.:-S
25th Apr 2012 23:45 UTCDean Allum Expert
I will agree with the historic aspect of the old mining cemeteries. When you wander around the Cripple Creek, Colorado cemetery, you notice the month/years when fire or disease ravaged the community.
There are many U.S. headstone pictures already on the web:
http://www.usgwtombstones.org/index.html
But you may want to limit your pics to those related to mining activity. This is not tombstonedat.org
By the way, here is a real old west epitaph:
"Here lies Lester Moore.
Four slugs
From a forty-four.
No Les
No More."
-Dean Allum
25th Apr 2012 23:56 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.
Will you be posting these beautiful photos to Mindat??? Pleeaaase!
Chet
26th Apr 2012 00:33 UTCSteve Hardinger 🌟 Expert
I see no fundamental difference.
26th Apr 2012 05:58 UTCMark Heintzelman 🌟 Expert
No other records of these workings remain.
History matters . . . headstones ARE history.
i.e., post away! :)
MRH
28th Apr 2012 00:05 UTCToby Billing
Post away I say!
28th Apr 2012 10:38 UTCFrank de Wit Manager
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> Frank,
>
> Will you be posting these beautiful photos to
> Mindat??? Pleeaaase!
>
> Chet
Done
See http://www.mindat.org/user-440.html#2_0_0_0_3_0_
Cheers, Frank
1st May 2012 03:11 UTCDonald Grybeck
http://www.cmnh.org/site/Files/InvertPaleo/Tombstones.pdf
.If you read down to the first line of the introduction:
"Geological observations in cemeteries have a long history.
Indeed, the naming of charnockite, a variety of granite,
is based on the tombstone of Job Charnock (d. 1693)."
And FYI, Job Charnock was the the founder of Calcutta, India and he is buried there.
Unfortunately for the preservations of such charming names, charnockite is often now just referred to as hypersthene grantite. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnockite
Don
1st May 2012 13:09 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.
Thank you so much!! These are real addditions to the Mindat database.
Chet
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