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Mount Auburn Cemetery

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An active burial place and vibrant cultural institution. National Historic Landmark. Mass Audubon Important Bird Area. Urban Ecosystem. Est. 1831. mountauburncemetery.start.page

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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It was such a joy to host Mark and Marcia Wilson for their Eyes on Owls program this past weekend. Thank you to all who joined us for this educational and inspiring event meant to bring us closer to these amazing animals.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Have you ever heard of a death doula? Ever wondered what they do or how they support families at the end-of-life? Join us next Monday for a free virtual panel Demystifying Death Doulas and have your questions answered! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/demystifyi...
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Beth Folsom writes for @CambrideDay about Mount Auburn resident, Dorothea Dix and her experience at the East Cambridge Jail www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/08/s...
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Social reformer Dorothea Dix’s mission was inspired by her work at the East Cambridge Jail - Cambridge Day
Dorothea Dix’s experiences at the East Cambridge Jail spurred the Massachusetts Legislature to expand care for those with mental illness. She continued her campaign all along the East Coast.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
In honor of Veterans Day and the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Mount Auburn Cemetery is pleased to announce a new self-guided tour highlighting Revolutionary War veterans buried at Mount Auburn. This tour will be available on our Bloomberg Connects digital guide.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
What do you think? Is it peak foliage season yet? 🍂
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We are excited to announce that Mount Auburn Cemetery’s digital visitor guide is now live on the Bloomberg Connects app, an arts and culture mobile platform that helps visitors explore museums, gardens, and historic sites around the world.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Today we honor the Indigenous peoples who have lived for thousands of years on the land we now call Cambridge and Watertown—especially the Massachusett and Pequossette Tribes, whose descendants continue to care for this region.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Welcoming Fall 🍂
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Happy Birthday to Joyce Chen! (1917–1994) — Born in Beijing, Joyce Chen became one of America’s most celebrated Chinese restauranteurs, authors, and TV hosts.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Today is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We remember the lives lost and the communities forever changed. Amid the storm’s devastation in 2005, one plant became an unexpected symbol of hope: the Peggy Martin rose. 🌹
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A serene Sunday scene. Have you seen our beautiful hydrangeas yet this year? 🦋
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Visiting Mount Auburn for the first time? Parking is available on Lawn Ave. surrounding Asa Gray Garden. 🚗
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Appreciation post for all the dragon 🐉 and damselflies 🌼 in our landscape and beyond. In 2024 our citizen scientists visited various sites to document dragon and damselflies that were present at each location as a part of our Adult Dragonfly Survey.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A serene Sunday scene at the Binney Monument.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It's the last Friday of Pride Month, but you can explore Mount Auburn's LGBTQ notable residents any time of year via the guide on our website: buff.ly/8mD607J
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Happy Birthday to the actor and Oscar-winner, Anne Revere!
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Commemorating the grave of physician, Harriot Kezia Hunt, stands her monument: "Hygeia" a sculptural treasure of Mount Auburn's funerary collection, carved by Edmonia Lewis in the early 1870's.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It's Pollinator Week! 🐝 🦋 What plants do you have in your garden that support the native pollinator population?
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🍀 🌈 It may be Friday the 13th, but we're still feeling lucky! 🏳️‍🌈 As part of our ongoing Pride month series we're highlighting Mount Auburn's famous LGBTQ residents!
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Happy Pride Month!! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Each week of Pride we'll be highlighting an LGBTQ+ historical resident of Mount Auburn Cemetery to remind us that queer people have always existed and will always exist.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Happy Birthday to author, poet, and activist, Julia Ward Howe! Buried on Spruce Ave. in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This Memorial Day we remember and honor the legacy of veterans buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery and their service to our country.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Happy Birthday to writer, journalist, & women's rights activist Margaret Fuller, whose cenotaph is located on Pyrola Path at Mount Auburn. 🎂
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, a public holiday in Armenia and observed by the Armenian Diaspora, including the Armenian cultural hubs of Watertown and Belmont Massachusetts. buff.ly/LVnMCGy
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Last Saturday and Sunday we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of our Artist-In-Residence program with a showcase of our talented artists throughout the years. We enjoyed dances, plays, music, poetry, storytelling and more–as well as a small gallery of our visual artists' work in Story Chapel.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“…Tulip Path, hard to find on the shaft, that insistent rise to heaven goes down and down…” – Robert Creeley (Lot 1509 Tulip Path)
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Just a few more weeks! 🌱
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
It's the last week of Women's History Month. To end our series of highlighting trailblazing women buried at Mount Auburn, we celebrate the legacy of Gertrude Wright Morgan (1861-1931), suffragist, civil rights activist, & founding member of the NAACP.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Spring is here! And this March we continue to highlight the trailblazing women buried at Mount Auburn for Women's History Month. This week, we celebrate the legacy of architect, Eleanor Raymond, who was born on this day in 1887.
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USA National Phenology Network @usa-npn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Congratulations to the USA-NPN's 2024 PhenoChampion: @mountauburncem.bsky.social Citizen Scientists! 🥳🌿🎉 The Phenology Team, managed by Jacqui Kluft, observes 16 different plant species and trained 40 new observers last year. According to one observer, "my life is richer for this program."
Mount Auburn Cemetery Citizen Scientists are the USA-NPN's 2024 Pheno Champions! Logos of Mount Auburn Cemetery Citizen Scientists, Nature's Notebook, and USA-NPN. Collage of photos of observers from the program.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
As we venture into the ides of March, we continue to highlight the trailblazing women buried at Mount Auburn for Women's History Month. This week, we celebrate the legacy of Illustrator, Author, and Sculptor Juliet Kepes, most famous for her children's book "Five Little Monkeys".
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Join our Citizen Science Naturalist Program to participate in the ecological field work taking place on our campus. 2025 volunteer trainings are available now! Sign-up today: buff.ly/Ye7kt1D
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
For the last week of February, and to close 2025's Black History Month, we celebrate the contributions to the fight for education equity in Boston and beyond. While, we do not have his photograph, Benjamin Franklin Roberts was a giant in Boston's Black community of the mid-1800s.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Celebrating the enduring ties of love this Valentine's Day 💘
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Our ongoing series of highlights for #BlackHistoryMonth brings us to Harriet Jacobs, a freedom-seeker, accomplished author, and a source of inspiration for generations. Whose birthday also happens to be today! 🎂
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Happy birthday to Amy Lowell, born on this day in 1874. Lowell's poetry lives on in the hearts & minds of many, including the New England Poetry Club, which was co-founded by Lowell & some of whose members, pictured here, visited last year in honor of Lowell's 150th birthday.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Recognized as one of the most significant designed landscapes in the country, Mount Auburn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 & designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003. Photo: Alan Ward #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesLandscape @usnatarchives
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In the Mount Auburn Historical Collections & Archives you will find may interesting letterheads from other businesses like this one dated this day in 1890 informing the Superintendent that his Buggy needed new tires.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery @mountauburncem.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This February during Black History Month, we celebrate Black individuals for their enduring contributions, which paved the way for others and helped to shape the American experience. Our first highlight for #BHM is a local legend within the Cambridge, MA community.
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