White Bronze Cemetery Monuments

The John and Ephriam Luse monument, at Greenlawn Cemetery, Wingate, Indiana.

I found several interesting web pages detailing the history of White Bronze Cemetery Monuments, that are actually made from pure Zinc. They look like marble, with a greyish white color, with a hint of blue. These beautiful monuments and stones were made in Connecticut, for only about 40 years, from about 1874 until 1914, but can be seen across most of the United States, and Canada. They are fairly rare, and but even have their own Waymarking.com category…

http://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=210ed699-7c91-403b-9b64-3020fe994b86

I am going to be looking out for some of these to photograph and waymark …

Other websites of interest:-

(Clicking these links will open a new window)

http://gombessa.tripod.com/scienceleadstheway/id8.html

http://familytrees.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/tombstone-tuesday-zinc-or-white-bronze/

http://www.uni.edu/connors/metalmon.htm

http://vintageviews.org/vv-tl/pages/Cem_Monuments.htm

http://tombstone-treasuresbeyondbones.blogspot.com/2011/09/history-of-white-bronze.html?m=1

http://agraveinterest.blogspot.com/2012/06/white-bronze-monument-of-quality.html?m-1

http://www.civilwarmonument.org/monumental_bronze.htm