Mount Auburn Cemetry

Address: 580 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge

Tel: (617)-547-7105

This is the first botanical garden cemetery in the United States, with 170-acres of landscaped grounds. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes are among those buried there.


Set aside in 1631 for grazing cattle, training militia and holding assemblies, this park has been a focal point of political, religious and social activity for over 350 years.


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Eric Loeb (loeb@psyche.mit.edu), Audrey King (ayking@athena.mit.edu)

Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Last updated on July 12, 1994