Halcyon Garden is developed
Completed in 2001, Halcyon Garden became the Mount Auburn’s newest innovative burial area. The architectural firm of Reed Hilderbrand Associates received a Design Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2003 for the design of Halcyon Garden.
Garden Pond begins transformation into Halcyon Lake
Early maps of Mount Auburn (such as the 1831 map section seen above) show a large three-lobed pond in the northeast corner of the Cemetery. The pond was then labeled Garden Pond, and it covered much of what is now Ash Avenue … Continue reading