Forest Hills Cemetery

Forest Hills Cemetery - Images of America

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Publisher's Synopsis

Laid out in 1848 as a rural garden cemetery by Henry A. S. Dearborn, Forest Hills Cemetery celebrates its 160th anniversary in 2008 as Boston's premier arboretum cemetery. Since the mid-19th century, its 250 magnificent acres have been the resting place of people of all walks of life, ethnicities, religions, and races. Among these are poets Anne Sexton and E. E. Cummings, playwright Eugene O'Neill, and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Forest Hills's landscape is a museum of sculpture, art, and monuments that chronicles the Victorian age to the present. The first crematorium in New England was here, and prominent Bostonian suffragette Lucy Stone was the first person to be cremated at Forest Hills in 1893. An active cemetery and an all-embracing place, Forest Hills offers a bucolic and picturesque setting for the "gathering of generations" and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Book information

ISBN: 9780738557885
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Pub date:
DEWEY: 929.5
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 127
Weight: 317g
Height: 237mm
Width: 167mm
Spine width: 7mm