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Mount Auburn Cemetery is a historic, "garden-style" burial ground in Boston, Massachusetts, located between Cambridge and Watertown, and dedicated in 1831.The 174-acre grounds has long been the preferred burial ground for the middle class and elite of New England.
Mount Auburn Cemetery, located in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, is the first rural or garden cemetery in the United States. It is the burial site of many prominent Boston Brahmins, and is a National Historic Landmark.
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
In 1965 a Parish House addition was constructed at the northeast corner of the chapel to designs by Cambridge architect Arthur H. Brooks, Jr. In 2002, the Swedenborg School of Religion sold the chapel to the Cambridge Society of the New Jerusalem, which was the incorporated congregation that had been with the chapel since its construction. [2]
King's Chapel Burying Ground was founded in 1630 as the first graveyard in the city of Boston. According to custom, the first interment was that of the land's original owner, Isaac Johnson . It was Boston's only burial site for 30 years (1630–1660).
Jonathan Belcher – colonial American merchant, businessman, and politician (Governor of Massachusetts Bay) [4] [5] [6] Rev. William Brattle – cleric, father of William Brattle [2] [5] Elijah Corlet – educator, schoolmaster of the Cambridge Grammar School [5] Samuel McChord Crothers – minister with The First Parish in Cambridge [2]
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