Notable Residents
A Landscape of Memory
Botanists, Horticulturalists, & Garden Enthusiasts of Mount Auburn
Explore Mount Auburn’s landscape through the eyes of it’s designers, as well as the many notable garden professionals and enthusiasts who chose their resting place here.
Explore the Botanists, Horticulturalists, & Garden Enthusiasts of Mount Auburn
LGBTQ Pride at Mount Auburn
LGBTQ People have always existed. Learn about New England’s LGBTQ history throughout Mount Auburn’s landscape, where friends and lovers gather to mourn and commemorate each other.
African-American Heritage Trail
Mount Auburn Cemetery’s African American Heritage Trail illuminates the history of individuals who found their final resting place in a cemetery welcoming of all faiths, races, and backgrounds, and within an interconnected community of those who fought for human equality.
The Poets of Mount Auburn
The unique relationships between Mount Auburn and the public it serves have long been reflected in poetry, prose, and lore. For decades writers have drawn upon Mount Auburn’s most timeless and universal themes.
Here, let the brave repose, who have died in the cause of their country. Here, let the statesman rest, who has achieved the victories of peace, not less renowned than war. Here, let genius find a home, that has sung immortal strains, or has instructed with still diviner eloquence. Here let learning and science, the votaries of invetive art, and the teacher of the philosophy of nature come. Here yet youth and beauty, blighted by premature decay, drop, like tender blossoms into the virgin earth; and here let age retire, ripened for the harvest. Above all, here let the benefactors of mankind, the good, the merciful, the meek, the pure in heart be congregated, for to them belongs an undying praise.
-Joseph Story, September 24, 1831