Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Mount Auburn Cemetery (Boston, Mass.)
Mt. Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge, Mass.)
Mount Auburn Cemetery (Watertown, Mass.)
Mount Auburn Cemetery (Middlesex County, Mass.)
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- Affiliation Address: 580 Mount Auburn Street , Cambridge , Mass. 02138
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- City: Cambridge
- State: Mass.
- Post Code: 02138
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found: Silent city on the hill, 1989.
found: Lippincott(Cambridge)
found: Call to publisher, 12/12/88:(Mt. Auburn Cemetery located in Watertown and Cambridge)
found: Its Web site, May 25, 2006(Mount Auburn Cemetery; founded 1831; designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior; 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, Mass.)
found: GNIS, May 25, 2006(Mount Auburn Cemetery--Cemetery, 42°22ʹ15ʺN 71°08ʹ43ʺW; Middlesex County)
found: Mount Auburn Cemetery website, viewed Dec. 2, 2013(Address: 580 Mount Auburn Street; Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138; telephone: 617-547-7105) about>history (In 1831 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society purchased 72 acres of mature woodland situated in Watertown and Cambridge for the creation of a "rural cemetery" and experimental garden. On September 24, 1831, a crowd gathered in the Dell; for the ceremony to consecrate this sacred land) - http://mountauburn.org/
found: Wikipedia, Dec. 2, 2013(Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, was founded in 1831 as America's first garden cemetery or rural cemetery. The appearance of this type of landscape coincides with the rising popularity of the term cemetery, derived from the Greek for a sleeping place. The 174-acre (70 ha) cemetery is important both for its historical aspects and for its role as an arboretum. Most of the cemetery is located in Watertown, Massachusetts, though the 1843 granite Egyptian revival entrance lies in neighboring Cambridge, adjacent to the Cambridge City and Sand Banks Cemeteries) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Auburn_Cemetery
found: Mount Auburn Cemetery visitors map, April 2017(Mount Auburn Cemetery, Watertown & Cambridge, MA; Mount Auburn is a privately owned institution and an active burial place)
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1996-10-15: new
2022-11-14: revised
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