In Photos: A Trip to Mount Auburn Cemetery

Consecrated in 1831 as America’s first landscape cemetery, Mount Auburn Cemetery is a national historic landmark the burial site of many prominent figures — including Dorothea Dix, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles Sumner, Class of 1830.

Light Through Clouds

Trees and a Sign in Mt Auburn Cemetery

Tombstones and Sunlight in Mt Auburn Cemetery

Tree Branches in Mt Auburn Cemetery

Bigelow Chapel Mt Auburn Cemetery

Two Angles of Mt Auburn Sphinx

Sphinx in Mt Auburn

Tombstone in Mt Auburn

Steps in Washington Tower