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Press Room

Mount Auburn is happy to assist members of the press with stories, interviews, fact checking and photos. For assistance, please contact the Cemetery at 617-547-7105 or email friends@mountauburn.org.

RECENT PRESS RELEASES

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Calendar Listings

Please include Mount Auburn's upcoming programs in the calendar listings section of your publication.

May 2008 Programs & Events

Special Events & News

"The American Resting Place" Special Event May 15
Special Events Celebrate New Visitors Center May 3 & 4
Mount Auburn's New Visitors Center to Open in May

STORY IDEAS: THE FACETS OF MOUNT AUBURN

Mount Auburn Cemetery is an active cemetery, an outdoor museum with many unique collections and a renowned horticultural landscape. Explore Mount Auburn's many unique facets:

Mount Auburn Celebrates 175th Anniversary
SEPTEMBER 2005. Mount Auburn Cemetery plans to celebrate its 175th Anniversary with a yearlong series of lectures, programs and special events, most free and open to the public. Founded in 1831, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown and Cambridge, Massachusetts, is America's first landscaped cemetery. Today it remains an active place of burial and welcomes 200,000 visitors annually to view is impressive artistic, architectural and horticultural collections.
Mount Auburn Receives Historic Preservation Award
October 2007. Mount Auburn Cemetery has received the prestigious Trustees' Emeritus Award for Excellence in the Stewardship of Historic Sites from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Mount Auburn is one of 21 national award winners the National Trust for Historic Preservation honored during its week-long 2007 National Preservation Conference in the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
Mount Auburn Recognized for Underground Railroad Ties
OCTOBER 2006. The National Park Service recognized Mount Auburn's ties to the Underground Railroad by designating the Cemetery a site in its "National Underground Railroad: Network to Freedom" program. Mount Auburn is the final resting place of several abolitionists both directly and indirectly associated with the Underground Railroad and the abolitionist movement.