Forest Hills Cemetery

by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

Book Overview

Laid out in 1848 as a rural garden cemetery by Henry A. S. Dearborn, Forest Hills Cemetery celebrates its 160th anniversary in 2008 as Boston's premier arboretum cemetery. Since the mid-19th century, its 250 magnificent acres have been the resting place of people of all walks of life, ethnicities, religions, and races. Among these are poets Anne Sexton and E. E. Cummings, playwright Eugene O'Neill, and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Forest Hills's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738557889
• ISBN13: 9780738557885
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.4"