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The American garden cemetery that opened seven years before Highgate, in a free evening talk.
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Deborah Kahn of Boston University on Mount Auburn, founded in 1831 outside Boston as part burial ground and part experimental garden, and, like London's garden cemeteries, a response to an urban burial crisis. It covers a hilly hundred and seventy acres above the Charles River with the city six miles off, and it was set up by trustees — physicians, merchants, Harvard men — as philanthropy rather than as a business, which is the sharpest difference from the London seven. Free.
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