Rewind to early 19th century America and find yourself in the time of the Industrial Revolution, where throngs of workers were lured to overly-congested cities and when urban burial grounds became increasingly problematic. Uncover the issues caused by urban cemeteries, including severe overcrowding and the spread of disease. Discover how the influence of Romanticism drastically transformed American society's mindset toward burying the dead and learn how they would come to embrace cemeteries as cultural institutions with a move toward the more rural cemetery tradition we know today. 

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