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The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn 6 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Burial-places in Cambridge. (search)
avenues for pleasure-driving. The first committee for the cemetery was composed of influential men, the late Judge Story being chairman. It met August 3, 1831, and received a very encouraging report. August 8th, another committee was selected to procure a survey, and a plan for laying out lots. This survey was by Alexander Wadsworth, civil engineer. The consecration of the cemetery occurred on Saturday, September 24, 1831, the late Judge Story delivering the address, in Consecration Dell, as it has since been called. An audience of two thousand persons, seated in a temporary amphitheatre among the trees, added a scene of picturesque beauty to the impressive solemnity of the occasion. In the year 1835 the legislature incorporated the proprietors as the Mount Auburn Corporation. The first purchase of land contained seventy-two acres; the present area is one hundred and thirty-six acres. The first recorded burial is that of a child of James Boyd, of Roxbury, July 6, 1832
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Monuments. (search)
duce, in this department, what Leverett's Lexicon has been truly entitled, a monument of patient toil. The visiter, in full view of the beauties of Consecration Dell, will probably now wander into Violet Path, where the monument of Hicks will arrest his attention; and into Alder Path, where that of Wetmore appears. That of Jpure, from God thy spirit came; Spotless it has returned, a brighter flame. Thy last, soft prayer was heard-No more to roam; Leverett. Hicks. Consecration Dell. Wetmore. Savage. Story. Faxon. Thou art, ('t was all thy wish,) thou art gone home. The last words, uttered but a few moments before her death, wnstances, are reared with reference to each other, and enclosed together. Those of Waterston, Watts, and Hayes, on the charming slope which overlooks Consecration Dell, There are several monuments on this part of the grounds to which we should ask attention, did our limits allow of it; that of Martha coffin Derby --belonging,
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Sweet Auburn and Mount Auburn. (search)
ed. Upon the earth the cloudless heavens smiled, The soft southwest breathed perfume faint and mild. Such kindly influence from above was shed Upon that day which gave thee to the dead. Where the green hills, rising abrupt and steep, Guard that calm dell where peaceful waters sleep, An earnest multitude assembled there, Listened with reverence to the solemn prayer, That, rising through the dim aisles of the wood, Went from full hearts up to the living God. There, in beautiful Consecration Dell, seated on the green hillsides, under the shadowing trees, in all their glory of brilliant autumnal foliage, that great congregation of thousands lent themselves with reverent silence and profound delight to the enjoyment of the eloquent address of Judge Story, the accomplished scholar and eminent jurist, the man justly honored and beloved of all. There was a burst of solemn music by the band, and a thousand voices united in a grand melody as the hymn of praise ascended on high. It was a sc