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ENCLOSING THEIR IMMORTAL SOULS: A SURVEY OF TWO AFRICAN AMERICAN CEMETERIES IN GEORGETOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA

A cemetery survey was completed in July of 2009 at two African American cemeteries in coastal South Carolina. The objective of this research was to study above-ground artifacts and features in the cemeteries in an effort to better understand life and death for enslaved African and African American

Publication: Southeastern Archaeology

Down garden paths in old Georgetown; Residents welcome public to inner sanctums.(WASHINGTON WEEKEND)(COVER STORY)

Byline: Sue Darcey, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES How to explain the mystique of the garden? It's a tie to nature, a refuge from the world, a chance to coax a living thing toward the fullness of its beauty. It's art, design and style statement rolled into one. That may explain the popular appeal

Publication: The Washington Times (Washington, DC)

"Great events have taken place": The civil war diary of Adele Allston Vanderhorst

ADELE ALLSTON, THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF ROBERT F. W. Allston, like many other young women of the southern planter class, kept a diary during her teens and early adulthood, and despite the burdens of motherhood, at least to some extent throughout the rest of her life. This diary is interesting for

Publication: South Carolina Historical Magazine

Finding The Soul Of a Place; A Black History of Georgetown

Only 16 families of color still live in Georgetown, by the count of "Black Georgetown Remembered," but most "can trace their ancestry back many generations." Kathleen M. Lesko, general editor of the new Georgetown University Press publication, said that number only includes those in historic

Publication: The Washington Post

Georgetown University

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Situated in Washington, D.C., Georgetown University, founded in 1789, is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the United States. Its story is one of a traditional European collegium transplanted into a new republic on American soil, shaping and being

Publication: New Catholic Encyclopedia