1. "Pioneer cemeteries and the settlement frontier in nineteenth-century Iowa: insights from HGIS" Gail Brown Adviser: Deryck Holdsworth

2. Introduction What is Historic GIS?

3. Louisiana Purchase

4. Iowa Boundaries 1840 Final Study Area

5. Study Area and Major Sites

6. Cemetery Focus

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

8. Define Time

9. 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

10. Andreas Atlas Data

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

12. Andreas Cemetery and State Historical Society Same Same?

13. State Data with Andreas Plats

14. Cemetery Data

15. Spatial Relevance

16. 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.