"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

Define Cemetery Places where dead people were buried Photo by Photographic Services, University of Iowa.

Define Time

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

Andreas Atlas Data

Post Offices, Towns, and Cemeteries P.O. Cemetery Town

Andreas Cemetery and State Historical Society Same Same?

State Data with Andreas Plats

Cemetery Data

Spatial Relevance

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.