Talk:Mount Auburn Cemetery

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The article claimed that "Mount Auburn is also credited with the first use of the word cemetery in English." But OED has 2 pre-1800 quotes for the word. --Macrakis 05:43, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Mt. Auburn Cemetery is also Located In Watertown, Massachusetts

The cemetery is located at the corner of Mount Auburn and Brattle Streets in Watertown and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Of the 174 acres of the cemetery 164 are in Watertown and 10 are in Cambridge.

Odd wording

Because of the number of visitors, the cemetery's developers carefully regulated the grounds: they had a policy to remove "offensive and improper" monuments and only "proprietors" (i.e. plot owners) could have vehicles on the grounds and were allowed within the gates on Sundays and holidays. What does this mean? Wouldn't the cemetery have ruling say in the first place as to what kind of tombstone/monument could be placed there? Wouldn't they give the red light to a tombstone they didn't like before it was ever installed? --Ragemanchoo (talk) 06:26, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

"America's first garden cemetery"

Is there a source for this phrase? The quotations imply that there is, but the phrasing devoid of context has a weirdly commercial ring to it, to my ears. I'd like to reword this but don't want to lose a potentially significant quote. Anyone? Kafka Liz (talk) 02:09, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Editors in the area of the Mount Auburn Cemetery

See also: Talk:Henry Hoolulu Pitman § Mount Auburn family marker and grave marker

Hello. Are there any editors in the area of the Mount Auburn Cemetery who would like to help me get a picture of a gravesite for Timothy Henry Hoolulu Pitman. There is also apparently a family memorial possibly in the center of the Pitman plot. There is one of the family marker on the Wiki commons but it is from a different angle and I need a better picture of this with the inscription of Henry's side visible. The images I've linked are non-free so I can't use them and need someone in the area to upload a non-free image to Wikimedia Commons. I've also read that his brother Benjamin Franklin Pitman (1845–1918) is buried around there in a family vault but I have seen no image of this and the marker I linked actually doesn't include him? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:22, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

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