A Very Old Cemetery

Mount Auburn Cemetery (1831)

Located in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts.

An amazing place to visit! 

It sits on almost 200 acres and is the final resting place for more than 98,000 people.  It's opened everyday of the year, hours vary depending on the weather. 

It's so beautiful here...the two photos above were taken last spring...be sure to click on the photos to enlarge them.

They list around 70 of the more notable/famous people buried here on their map, however there are more than a thousand notables buried here.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-18820) Poet

Edwin Booth (1833-1893) a Shakespearean actor and brother of John Wilkes Booth, an actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

Curt Gowdy (1919-2006) a Sportscaster for the Boston Red Sox

Look close you will see that someone left a baseball on the memorial stone, lower left under his name...be sure to click on the photos to enlarge them.

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For those that find cemeteries interesting, I hope you will take some time to visit the links below.

1. Mount Auburn website http://mountauburn.org you will not be disappointed. I seriously could spend all day on this website and not read the same thing twice!

2. Wikipedia is a great reference tool. Visit this link for a quick look at the history, you can also find a good list all the notables buried here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Auburn_Cemetery

3. There's a magazine published, the most recent can be found here. http://mountauburn.org/media-archive/sweet-auburn-magazine-2016-volume-1

So much information, so much fun to read. 

4. Mount Auburn was profiled in a PBS documentary "A Cemetery Special" in 2005.

5. In 1975 Mount Auburn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (website not listed here) and in May 2003, it was designated a National Historic Landmark. Visit this website http://www.nps.gov/nhl/find/statelists/LIST15.pdf for some information

So much to see and do here, it truly is a museum.  I hope you enjoyed my post.