HomeMy Public PortalAboutMount Auburn Cemetery - Watertown"What spot can be more appropriate than this?" — a walking tour of
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Co -sponsored by
Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
The Historical Society of Watertown
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On October 9, 2005 the Friends of Mount Auburn and the Historical Society
of Watertown cosponsored a guided tour of Mount Auburn Cemetery in
celebration of 375th anniversary of Watertown's founding. During the walk
members of the Historical Society Council and volunteers spoke about the lives of
some of Watertown's notable figures now buried at the Cemetery. The walk
included visits to the graves of poet Maria White Lowell; inventor Sterling
Elliott; Wellesley College founders Henry and Pauline Fowle Durant;
Revolutionary War hero Captain John Fowle; Watertown doctor Dr. Water
Hunnewell; cotton manufacturer Seth Bemis; library founder Joseph Bird;
railroad manufacturer Charles Davenport; Walker Pratt Foundry owner Miles
Pratt; Watertown Historian George Frederick Robinson; sculptor Anne
Whitney; Star Market grocery chain founder Stephen Mugar; United States
Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis; physician and founder of the
Historical Society of Watertown Dr. Alfred Hosmer; and sculptor Harriet
Hosmer. The walk concluded at the Hosmer family lot with a special flower
laying in honor Harriet Hosmer's 175th birthday on October 9.
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In 1831 Mount Auburn created a new American landscape that defined what
our nation's cemeteries should be and inspired the creation of our public parks.
As an active burial place and a vibrant cultural institution, we continue to
celebrate the lives of individuals who have shaped our world by opening our
renowned landscape, art and architecture to the community.
A natural oasis for tens of thousands of visitors annually, Mount Auburn
Cemetery will forever be a source of comfort and inspiration.
The Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery is a non-profit educational trust
established to promote the appreciation and preservation of Mount Auburn's
cultural, historic and natural resources.
Mount Auburn Cemetery
580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 1 617-547-7105 1 www.mountauburn.org
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The mission of the Historical Society of Watertown is to explore and to
excite a general interest in the study of all historical events, subjects, and
questions, whether of a nature civil, military, education, ecclesiastical, or
otherwise, that connect themselves with any portion of the large territory that was
originally included under the municipal title of Watertown; to obtain biographical
sketches of all individuals ever resident therein who have enacted a prominent part
in its local affairs, or whose family names have become distinguished in state or
national history; and in general not only to obtain the above historical knowledge,
but to preserve and make it known; to maintain a society building at 28 Marshall
Street, Watertown, MA 02472, (known as the Edmund Fowle House), with a
museum, art gallery and library.
The Historical Society of Watertown
28 Marshall Street, Watertown, MA 02472