Forest Hills Cemetery

In 1848, Henry Dearborn, the mayor of Roxbury, spearheaded the project to develop Forest Hills Cemetery to alleviate overcrowded burial grounds. Nearly two decades prior, Dearborn had designed Mount Auburn Cemetery, the nation’s first rural cemetery. Like its predecessor, Fore...

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1895
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Boston Public Library
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Massachusetts
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Suffolk
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Boston
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Geo. H. Walker & Co. lith.
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