Login
Lost Password?
No account yet? Register

Welcome

Taphophilia (dot) Com...
A repository of morbid curiosities:
Thanatology and Taphophile Issues, Cemetery,
Funeral Industry and Death Related News.

What's at Taph?

Taphophilia Home
Thanatology Forums
Taphophile Weblinks
Taph's Article Archive
Contact Deadgirl
Donating to Taphophilia
Book Library

Deadgirl Recommends

Advertisement

Dig Deeper

Literature
Topics at Taphophilia
Deadgirl's Dictionary
Cemetery Photography
Industry News
Carved in Stone

A Taphophilia Thank You...

Taphophilia (dot) Com would not be possible without the knowledge, experience and talent of DarkestWeb. From
its conception and early development, DarkestWeb
was faced with many challenges; from inspiring and motivating, to providing guidance and direction. The continued dedication and support has produced results greater than ever expected, and for this, I owe a huge debt of gratitude.

Cemetery Snapshot

washington_1205_016.jpg.jpg

Announcements

Graveyards of Chicago:
The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries
By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski. Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Green-Wood Cemetery Arcadia Publishing announces the release of Alexandra Mosca's historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery and to browse other available titles!


Men of Mortuaries Calendar
To purchase your 2008 calendar, learn more about the KAMMCARES Foundation, or to be featured in the 2009 calendar, please visit Men of Mortuaries.

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers
For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints, Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture
with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman is now
available. Please visit
Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.
Citadel may soon move bones from stadium site PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 26 May 2004
The Citadel could begin removing remains of some 200 people buried beneath its Johnson Hagood Stadium as early as the end of next week.

The school, along with other interested parties that include the Confederate Heritage Trust and the Maritime Association of the Port of Charleston want to relocate the 19th century graves before the stadium is renovated.

The graves, which belonged to sailors, soldiers, marines, orphans and widows were supposed to have been removed in 1948 before the ball field was built. But only the headstones were taken, and so the bones and burial artifacts stayed below the site for more than half a century longer until now.

Charleston City Council granted conditional approval Tuesday for the school to relocate the remains no sooner than June 1. The request came up during a citizen participation period at the meeting, which took place in the sanctuary of Providence Baptist Church on Daniel Island.

Andrea Brisbin, an attorney representing the school, explained that because of a state law, which requires a 30-day advance notice of a public hearing for such matters, the grave removal request wasn't on the agenda. The first notice of the school's plans was published in The Post and Courier on April 28, she said, which meant council couldn't consider the request until Friday. But that would delay the school's renovation plans too much.

"We're just trying to get set up so we'll be ready for football season in the fall," said Col. Donald Tomasik, The Citadel's vice president of facilities and engineering.

So council's unanimous approval came with the conditions that a notice run in the paper every day through Friday and that if anyone objects to the relocation of the remains, council would rehear the request at its next meeting in three weeks.

Since news of the cemetery relocation effort came out earlier this month, several people from across the nation have called The Post and Courier to inquire whether a relative might be buried under the stadium. A woman from Ohio wondered if her ancestor was moved there after his resting site was moved when the Santee Cooper dam in Berkeley County was built and the once-populated region behind the dam was flooded. Another caller thought her relative, a Union soldier shipped to Charleston from the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Ga., might be buried there. He died in Charleston during the war, and his resting place has not been identified, she said.

Ralph Bailey Jr. is vice president of Brockington and Associates Inc., the firm of archaeologists and historians contracted to handle mapping the burial sites and collecting and cataloguing the remains. He said everything will be stored at the firm's laboratory in Mount Pleasant until the remains are re-interred either elsewhere on the stadium site or at Magnolia Cemetery.

The college plans to hold games temporarily this fall using only the visitor stands. It is moving forward with plans to renovate the stadium at its current site but is entertaining the notion of a bowl stadium either there or at nearby Stoney Field.

Councilman Jimmy Gallant, a minister, offered to conduct a memorial service when the remains are relocated.

http://www.charleston.net/stories/052604/loc_26bones.shtml
 
< Prev   Next >
[ Back ]

Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

Quote Repository

“Cowards die may times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”

William ShakespeareFrom Ham

Deadgirl's Favorites

  • Elmwood Cemetery

  • Coffin Books

  • Farber Collection
  • Pushin Daisies
  • Coffin Talk Forums

  • Lewiston,ID Projects

  • Eternal Touch Studios

  • Adipocere
  • Adimundo Forums
  • Find A Death
  • Guardians of the Soul
  • Coffin Gems
  • Stories In Stone
  • Grave Matter
  • AGS Online

    • Recently Exhumed

  • Beheading videos fascinate public
  • Tomb facts/Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
  • Death videos big sellers
  • Presidential Funerals
  • Lamont Bentley, 31
  • Webshot Photo Album -- Manila Chinese Cemetery
  • Ashes to assets, dust to diamonds
  • INSIDES OUT: Cadaver exhibit to make U.S. debut
  • Haunted Inns: Rumors of ghosts float at Southern spots
  • Death Equals Science at Body Farm
  • Hanging is widely used worldwide for execution
  • Michael Louden, 40

    • Shirtless and Sculpted

    The Men of Mortuaries 2008 Calendar is now available! All sale proceeds benefit KAMMCARES, a breast cancer foundation.

    Image