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...in 1831, the legislature granted the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society permission to purchase land for
use as an experimental garden and a rural cemetery.
Located on the border of Cambridge and Watertown, the
garden failed, but the cemetery became world famous. As
the first rural cemetery in America, Mount Auburn
pioneered the idea of burying the dead not in urban
churchyards but in a beautifully designed, naturalistic
landscape on the outskirts of the city. The idea caught
on and eventually led to the creation of public parks in
metropolitan areas. 174 years after the cemetery was
consecrated, the dead are still being laid to rest along
Mount Auburn's winding paths, in her wooded dells, and
on her gentle hillsides.
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