Mount Auburn Cemetery é o primeiro cemitério-jardim dos Estados Unidos, localizado entre Cambridge e Watertown no Condado de Middlesex (Massachusetts), a 6,4 km a oeste de Boston.

O cemitério foi designado, em 21 de abril de 1975, um distrito do Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos bem como, em 27 de maio de 2003, um Marco Histórico Nacional.

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A Hannah Adams (1755–1831), autor Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822–1907), cientista, autor Louis Agassiz (1807–1873),Corbett, William. Literary New England: A History and Guide. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993: 106. ISBN 0-571-19816-3 cientista Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907), autor Nathan Appleton (1779–1861), congressista Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-1884) artista e cunhado de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow William Appleton (1786–1862), congressista Julia Arthur (1869-1950), atriz Thomas F. August (1926-2005), advogado e político

B Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) teólogo Benjamin E. Bates (1808–1878), industrialista, fundador do Bates College Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879), designer do Mt. Auburn Cemetery J. W. Black (1825–1896), fotógrafo Edwin Booth (1833–1893), ator Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), matemático, marinheiro, autor William Brewster (1851–1919), ornitologista Peter Bent Brigham (1807–1877), filantropo Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), bispo Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), arquiteto McGeorge Bundy (1919–1996), oficial do gabinete presidencial

C George Cabot (1752–1823), estadista James Henry Carleton (1814–1873), oficial do Exército dos Estados Unidos William Ellery Channing (1780–1842), teólogo John Ciardi (1916–1986), poeta, tradutor Alvan Clark (1804–1887), astrônomo e fabricante de telescópios Robert Creeley (1926–2005), poeta Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772–1851), estadista Frank Crowninshield (1872–1947), criador e editor da Vanity Fair magazine Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), atriz

D Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1821–1888), artista Samuel Dexter (1761–1816), congressista Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), enfermeira

E Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), lider religioso Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903–1990), engenheiro, cientista Charles William Eliot (1834–1926), presidente da Harvard University Edward Everett (1794–1865), Governador de Massachusetts William Everett (1839–1910), congressista

F Achilles Fang (1910–1995), sinologista Fannie Farmer (1857–1915), autor de livro de receitas Fanny Fern (1811–1872), autora feminista Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915), autora, mulher de James Thomas Fields James Thomas Fields (1817–1881), escritor e publicista William M. Folger (1844-1928), Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), arquiteto

G Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), colecionador de arte, fundador de museu Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944), ilustrador Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866), conchologista e malacologistaWyman J. (1903). Biographical memoir of Augustus Addison Gould 1805-1866. 91-113. Read before The National Academy of Sciences, April 22, 1903. Curt Gowdy (1919–2006) Asa Gray (1810–1888), botânico Horace Gray (1828–1902), Horatio Greenough (1805–1852), escultor

H Charles Hale (1831–1882), jornalista, estadista Charles Hayden (1870–1937), filantropo Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), médico/autor Winslow Homer (1836–1910), artista Albion P. Howe (1818–1897), general do Exército da União Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910), poeta Samuel Gridley Howe (1801–1876), médico, abolicionista Horatio Hollis Hunnewell (1810-1902), banqueiro, financiador de ferrovias, filantropo, botânico amador Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt (1805–1875) médica

J Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897), escrava fugitiva e autora de Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Melvin Johnson (1909–1965), advogado Edward F. Jones (1828–1913),

K Michael Kelly (1957–2003), jornalista e escritor Drastamat Kanayan (General Dro) (1884-1956), comandante militar armeniano e político; Ministro da Defesa da Armênia (1920)

L Edwin Land (1909–1991), cientista Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826–1906), educador Herbert Leeds (1855–1930), golfista amador Abbott Lawrence (1792–1855), político, filantropo Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), político Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902–1985) político Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), poeta A. Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), presidente da Universidade Harvard Amy Lowell (1874–1925), poetisa Charles Russell Lowell (1835–1864), Francis Cabot Lowell (1855–1911), congressista James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), poeta e diplomata estrangeiro Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843–1905), mulher do Gen. Charles Russell Lowell, irmã do Col. Robert Gould Shaw Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), poetisa e mulher de James Russell

M Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), escritor Jules Marcou (1824–1898), geólogo Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), psicólogo Leopold Morse (1831–1893) William T.G. Morton (1819–1868), Stephen P. Mugar (1901–1982), Joseph B. Murdock (1851–1931), John Murray (1741–1815), fundador da "Universalist Church in America"

N Shahan Natalie (1884–1983), organizador principal da Operação Nêmesis Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), autor Robert Nozick (1938–2002), filósofo

O Richard Olney (1835–1917), estadista Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850), poeta Harrison Gray Otis (1765–1848), Maribel Vinson-Owen, ver Maribel Vinson Maribel Y. Owen (1940–1961), Laurence R. Owen (1944–1961),

P Harvey D. Parker (1805–1884), Daniel Pinckney Parker (1781–1850), mercador Francis Parkman (1823–1893), historiador Fanny Parnell (1844–1882), poetisa, irmã de Charles Stewart Parnell Benjamin Pitman (1815–1888), Timothy Henry Pitman (1845–1863),

Q Josiah Quincy III (1772–1864), estadista, educador

R John Rawls (1921–2002), filósofo Anne Revere (1903–1990), atriz Marjorie Newell Robb (1889–1992), William Eustis Russell (1857–1896), governador de Massachusetts George Lewis Ruffin (1834-1886) primeiro afro-americano a servir no "Boston City Council"

S Julian Schwinger, físico teórico, Nobel de Física Lemuel Shaw (1781–1861), Robert Gould Shaw B. F. Skinner (1904–1990), psicólogo Franklin W. Smith (1826–1911), Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776–1832), Daniel C. Stillson (1830–1899), inventor Joseph Story (1779–1845), Charles Sumner (1811–1874), estadista

T Frank William Taussig (1859–1940), economista Randall Thompson (1899–1984), compositor William Ticknor (1810–1864), publicista William Davis Ticknor, Sr. (1881–1938), William S. Tilton (1828–1889), Charles Turner Torrey (1813–1846), abolicionista Charles Tufts (1781–1876), empresário que doou as terras para a Universidade Tufts

V Maribel Vinson (1911–1961),

W Benjamin Waterhouse (1754–1846), médico Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867), publicista Robert Charles Winthrop (1809–1894), estadista Roger Wolcott (1847–1900), governador de Massachusetts Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784–1865), lexicógrafo

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Ver também Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos em Massachusetts

Leitura adicional Nathaniel Dearborn. A concise history of, and guide through Mount Auburn: with a catalogue of lots laid out in that cemetery; a map of the grounds, and terms of subscription, regulations concerning visitors, interments, &c., &c. Boston: N. Dearborn, 1843. 1857 ed. Moses King. Mount Auburn cemetery: including also a brief history and description of Cambridge, Harvard University, and the Union Railway Company. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Moses King, 1883. Aaron Sachs (historian). Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Ligações externas

Mount Auburn Cemetery official site Mount Auburn Cemetery: A New American Landscape, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan

Categoria:Distritos do Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos Categoria:Marco Histórico Nacional em Massachusetts