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{{short description|Historic cemetery in Massachusetts, United States}}
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| caption = Forest Hills Cemetery entrance
| caption = Forest Hills Cemetery entrance in August 2007
| location= 95 Forest Hills Ave.<br>[[Boston, Massachusetts]]
| location = 95 Forest Hills Ave.<br>[[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S.
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| built = {{start date|1848}}
| architect = Billings, Hammatt; et al.
| architect = Billings, Hammatt; et al.
| architecture = Colonial, Gothic Revival
| architecture = [[Colonial architecture|Colonial]] and [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]]
| added = November 17, 2004
| added = November 17, 2004
| area = {{convert|250|acre|ha}}
| area = {{convert|250|acre|ha}}
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| governing_body = Private
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'''Forest Hills Cemetery''' is a historic {{convert|275|acre|ha|1|adj=on}} [[rural cemetery]], greenspace, [[arboretum]] and [[sculpture]] [[garden]] located in the [[Forest Hills, Boston|Forest Hills]] section of the [[Jamaica Plain]] neighborhood of [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. The cemetery was established in 1848 as a public municipal cemetery of the town of [[Roxbury, Massachusetts|Roxbury]], but was privatized when Roxbury was annexed to Boston.
'''Forest Hills Cemetery''' is a historic {{convert|275|acre|ha|1|adj=on}} rural cemetery, greenspace, [[arboretum]], and [[sculpture]] [[garden]] in the [[Forest Hills, Boston|Forest Hills]] section of [[Jamaica Plain]], a neighborhood in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. The cemetery was established in 1848 as a public municipal cemetery for [[Roxbury, Massachusetts]], but was privatized when Roxbury was [[History of Boston#Geographic expansion|annexed to Boston]] in 1868.


==Overview==
==Overview==
Forest Hills Cemetery is located in the southern part of Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. It is roughly bounded on the southwest by Walk Hill Street, the southeast, by the American Legion Highway, and the northeast by the [[Arborway]] and [[Morton Street]], where its entrance is located. To the northwest, it is separated from Hyde Park Avenue by a small residential area. It abuts [[Franklin Park (Boston)|Franklin Park]], which lies to the northeast, and is a short distance from the [[Arnold Arboretum]] to the northwest, and forms a greenspace that augments the city's [[Emerald Necklace]] of parkland.
Forest Hills Cemetery is located in the southern part of [[Boston]]'s [[Jamaica Plain]] neighborhood. It is roughly bounded on the southwest by Walk Hill Street, the southeast, by the American Legion Highway, and the northeast by the [[Arborway]] and [[Morton Street]], where its entrance is located. To the northwest, it is separated from Hyde Park Avenue by a small residential area. It abuts [[Franklin Park (Boston)|Franklin Park]], which lies to the northeast, and is a short distance from the [[Arnold Arboretum]] to the northwest and forms a greenspace that augments the city's [[Emerald Necklace]] of parkland.


The cemetery has a number of notable monuments, including some by famous sculptors. Among these are [[Daniel Chester French]]'s ''[[Death and the Sculptor|Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor]]'' and [[John Wilson (sculptor)|John Wilson]]'s [[Firemen's Memorial (Boston)|Firemen's Memorial]]. Forest Hills Cemetery is an active cemetery where interments take place on most days of the year.
The cemetery has a number of notable monuments, including some created by notable sculptors, including [[Daniel Chester French]], whose ''[[Death and the Sculptor|Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor]]'' is in the cemetery, and [[John Wilson (sculptor)|John Wilson]], whose [[Firemen's Memorial (Boston)|Firemen's Memorial]] is there.
Forest Hills Cemetery is an active cemetery where [[burial|interment]]s take place on most days of the year.


==History==
==History==
On March 28, 1848, Roxbury City Council (the municipal board in charge of the area at that time) gave an order for the purchase of the farms of the Seaverns family to establish a rural municipal park cemetery. Inspired by the [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]], Forest Hills Cemetery was designed by Henry A. S. Dearborn to provide a park-like setting to bury and remember family and friends. In the year the cemetery was established, another {{convert|14+1/2|acre}} were purchased from John Parkinson. This made for a little more than {{convert|71|acre|ha}} at a cost of $27,894. The area was later increased to {{convert|225|acre|ha|1}}. In 1893, the first [[crematorium]] in Massachusetts was added to the cemetery, along with other features like a scattering garden, an indoor [[columbarium]] and an outdoor columbarium. In 1927, anarchists [[Sacco and Vanzetti|Nicola Sacco]] and [[Sacco and Vanzetti|Bartolomeo Vanzetti]] were cremated here after their execution; their ashes were later returned to Italy.
On March 28, 1848, Roxbury City Council, the municipal board in charge of the area at that time, gave an order for the purchase of the farms of the Seaverns family to establish a rural municipal park cemetery. Inspired by [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]], Forest Hills Cemetery was designed by Henry A. S. Dearborn to provide a park-like setting to bury and remember family and friends. In the year the cemetery was established, another {{convert|14+1/2|acre}} were purchased from John Parkinson. This made for a little more than {{convert|71|acre|ha}} at a cost of $27,894. The area was later increased to {{convert|225|acre|ha|1}}.
After operating as the municipal cemetery for [[Roxbury, Massachusetts]] for seven years, it was privatized in 1868 as Roxbury was annexed by neighboring [[Boston]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/places/forest-hills-cemetery.htm|title=Forest Hills Cemetery|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|access-date=28 January 2023}}</ref> In 1893, the first [[crematorium]] in Massachusetts was added to the cemetery, along with other features like a scattering garden, an indoor [[columbarium]] and an outdoor columbarium. In 1927, anarchists [[Sacco and Vanzetti|Nicola Sacco]] and [[Sacco and Vanzetti|Bartolomeo Vanzetti]] were cremated here after their execution; their ashes were later returned to Italy.


==Notable persons interred at Forest Hills==
==Notable people interred at Forest Hills==
[[File:Death and the sculptor.jpg|thumb|250px|''[[Death and the Sculptor|Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor]]'' ([[Martin Milmore]] Monument), by [[Daniel Chester French]] (1889-93).]]
[[File:Death and the sculptor.jpg|thumb|''[[Death and the Sculptor|Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor]]'', a monument to [[Martin Milmore]], built by [[Daniel Chester French]] between 1889 and 1893]]
[[File:Firemen's Monument, Boston by John A Wilson- far.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Firemen's Memorial (Boston)|Firemen's Memorial]].]]
[[File:Firemen's Monument, Boston by John A Wilson- far.jpg|thumb|[[Firemen's Memorial (Boston)|Firemen's Memorial]]]]
[[File:Gateway--Forest Hills, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg|thumb|250px|Gateway and Bell Tower.]]
[[File:Gateway--Forest Hills, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg|thumb|Gateway and Bell Tower]]
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* [[Rufus Anderson]], missionary and author<ref>{{cite book |title= Discourse commemorative of Rev. Rufus Anderson: D.D., LL.D. |author= Augustus Charles Thompson, Nathaniel George Clark |url= https://archive.org/details/discoursecommemo00thom |publisher= [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]] |year= 1880 }}</ref>
* [[Harrison Henry Atwood]], US House of Representatives (1895-1897), Architect of Boston
* [[Harrison Henry Atwood]], U.S. Congressman (1895–1897) and Boston architect
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*[[Simon Willard clocks|Simon Willard]] celebrated [[United States|U.S.]] [[clockmaker]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/projects/Early-Families-of-Roxbury-Massachusetts/3445|title=Early Families of Roxbury, Massachusetts genealogy project|website=geni_family_tree|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-14}}</ref>
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* [[Hugh Bancroft (attorney)|Hugh Bancroft]], president of ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''
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* [[Rufus Anderson]], missionary and author<ref>{{cite book |title= Discourse commemorative of Rev. Rufus Anderson: D.D., LL.D., |author= Augustus Charles Thompson, Nathaniel George Clark |url= https://archive.org/details/discoursecommemo00thom |publisher= [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]] |year= 1880 }}</ref>
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* [[Bancroft family|Hugh Bancroft]], president of ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''
* [[Clarence W. Barron]], president of [[Dow Jones & Company]]
* [[Clarence W. Barron]], president of [[Dow Jones & Company]]
* [[Cyrus Augustus Bartol]], American preacher and writer<ref>{{cite book |title=The American renaissance in New England |date=2001 |publisher=Gale Group |location=Detroit |page=32 |edition=Third series |url=https://archive.org/details/americanrenaissa0235unse/page/26/mode/2up}}</ref>
*[[Amy Beach]], composer and pianist
* [[Andrew Carney]], Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
* [[Amy Beach]], composer and pianist
* [[Andrew Carney]], entrepreneur and philanthropist
* [[Serge Chaloff]], swing and bebop saxophonist
* [[James Freeman Clarke]], author
* [[James Freeman Clarke]], author
* [[Channing H. Cox]], [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (1921–1925)
* [[Channing H. Cox]], [[Governor of Massachusetts]] from 1921 to 1925
* [[E. E. Cummings]], poet and artist
* [[E. E. Cummings]], poet and artist
* [[Fanny Davenport]], actress
* [[Fanny Davenport]], actress
* [[William Dawes]] (possible<ref name=fletcher>{{cite web
* [[William Dawes]], [[American Revolutionary War]] minuteman<ref name=fletcher>{{cite web
|url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/02/25/whos_buried_in_dawess_tomb/
|url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/02/25/whos_buried_in_dawess_tomb/
|title=Who's buried in Dawes's tomb?
|title=Who's buried in Dawes's tomb?
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|last=Fletcher
|last=Fletcher
|publisher=Boston Globe
|publisher=Boston Globe
|date=2005-02-25}}</ref>), tanner and American colonial [[minuteman]]
|date=2005-02-25}}</ref>)
* [[William Dwight]] (1831–1888), general in [[American Civil War]]<ref>{{cite book |author1= John H. Eicher |author2= David J. Eicher |author2-link= David J. Eicher |title= Civil War high commands |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Fs0Ajlnjl6AC&pg=PA220 |year=2001 |publisher= [[Stanford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8047-3641-1|pages= 220 }}</ref>
* [[William Dwight]], [[Union Army]] general in the [[American Civil War]]<ref>{{cite book |author1= John H. Eicher |author2= David J. Eicher |author2-link= David J. Eicher |title= Civil War high commands |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Fs0Ajlnjl6AC&pg=PA220 |year=2001 |publisher= [[Stanford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8047-3641-1|pages= 220 }}</ref>
* [[Eugene N. Foss]], [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (1911–1914)
* [[Eugene N. Foss]], [[Governor of Massachusetts]] from 1911 to 1914
* [[Lee M. Friedman]], lawyer and historian
* [[William Lloyd Garrison]], [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]]
* [[William Lloyd Garrison]], [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]]
* [[William Gaston (Massachusetts politician)|William Gaston]], [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (1875–1876)
* [[William Gaston (Massachusetts politician)|William Gaston]], [[Governor of Massachusetts]] from 1875 to 1876
* [[Kahlil Gibran, Sculptor|Kahlil Gibran]] (1922–2008), [[Sculptor]]
* [[Kahlil Gibran, Sculptor|Kahlil Gibran]], sculptor
* [[Adoniram Judson Gordon]] (1836–1895), preacher, writer, composer, and founder of [[Gordon College (Massachusetts)|Gordon College]]
* [[Adoniram Judson Gordon]] (1836–1895), preacher, writer, composer, and founder of [[Gordon College (Massachusetts)|Gordon College]]
* [[Curtis Guild]], [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (1906–1909)
* [[Curtis Guild]], [[Governor of Massachusetts]] from 1906 to 1909
* [[Edward Everett Hale]], author
* [[Edward Everett Hale]], author
* [[William Heath]], general in [[American Revolutionary War]]
* [[William Heath]], [[Continental Army]] general in the [[American Revolutionary War]]
* [[Karl Heinzen]], author
* [[Karl Heinzen]], author
* Rev. [[Edgar J. Helms]], Founder of Goodwill Industries
* [[Edgar J. Helms]], founder of Goodwill Industries
* [[Sarah Howe (fraudster)|Sarah Howe]], fraudster of the 1870s and 1880s, notably via Ladies' Deposit Company of Boston<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-mrs-howe-buried/159447893/ |title=Mrs. Howe Buried |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=8 |date=January 29, 1892 |accessdate=November 20, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>
* [[Charles Hiller Innes]], Massachusetts Politician
* [[Charles Hiller Innes]]<!--surname Innes-->, Massachusetts politician
* [[Jennie Kimball]], 19th-century actor, soubrette, theatrical manager
* [[Jennie Kimball]], 19th-century actor, soubrette, and theatrical manager
* [[Faik Konitza]], Albanian thinker, writer, journalist, politician
* [[Faik Konitza]], Albanian intellectual, writer, journalist, and politician
* [[Samuel P. Langley]], aviation pioneer, namesake of NASA Langley Research Center
* [[Samuel P. Langley]], aviation pioneer and the namesake of [[NASA]]'s [[Langley Research Center]]
* [[Reggie Lewis]], basketball player for [[Boston Celtics]]
* [[Reggie Lewis]], professional basketball player for the [[Boston Celtics]]
* [[Francis Cabot Lowell (businessman)|Francis Cabot Lowell]], after whom [[Lowell, Massachusetts]] is named
* [[Francis Cabot Lowell (businessman)|Francis Cabot Lowell]], businessman for whom [[Lowell, Massachusetts]], is named
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* [[John Lowell]], 18th century federal judge
* [[John Lowell (judge, 1865–1884)|John Lowell]], 19th century federal judge
* [[John Lowell]], 18th century U.S. federal judge
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* [[John Lowell (judge, 1865–1884)|John Lowell]], 19th century U.S. federal judge
* [[Martin Milmore]], sculptor
* [[Martin Milmore]], sculptor
* [[Carlotta Monterey]], actor and wife of [[Eugene O'Neill]]
* [[Carlotta Monterey]], actor and wife of [[Eugene O'Neill]]
* [[Godfrey Morse]], attorney
* [[Albert W. Nickerson]], railroad executive
* [[Albert W. Nickerson]], railroad executive<ref name="nickerson">{{Cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/70669424/lifes-work-ended-funeral-of-albert/ |title=Life's Work Ended. – Funeral of Albert Winslow Nickerson at Dedham. |date=May 21, 1893 |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=5 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=February 14, 2021}}</ref>
* [[Fan S. Noli|Theofan S. Noli]], Bishop, Prime Minister of [[Albania]]
* [[Fan S. Noli|Theofan S. Noli]], prime minister of Albania and bishop
* [[Eugene O'Neill]], playwright
* [[Eugene O'Neill]], playwright
* [[Joseph C. Pelletier]], [[district attorney]] of [[Suffolk County, Massachusetts]] and the Supreme Advocate of the [[Knights of Columbus]]
* [[Joseph C. Pelletier]], [[Suffolk County, Massachusetts]] district attorney and [[Knights of Columbus]] supreme advocate
* [[Ambrose Ranney]], U.S. Congressman<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000058 |title=Ranney, Ambrose Arnold |work=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]] |access-date=2022-10-07}}</ref>
* [[Anne Sexton]], poet
* [[Anne Sexton]], poet
* [[Frank Henry Shapleigh]], painter<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frank Henry Shapleigh (1842-1906) |url=https://www.whitemountainart.com/about-3/artists/frank-henry-shapleigh-1842-1906/ |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=White Mountain Art & Artists}}</ref>
* [[Pauline Agassiz Shaw]], reformer and philanthropist
* [[Pauline Agassiz Shaw]], reformer and philanthropist
* [[Lysander Spooner]], early American abolitionist, writer, [[Individualist anarchism|anarchist]]
* [[Lysander Spooner]], American abolitionist, writer, and [[Individualist anarchism|anarchist]]
* [[Amy Wentworth Stone]], children's writer
* [[Lucy Stone]], suffragist
* [[Lucy Stone]], suffragist
* [[Anna Eliot Ticknor]], distance learning pioneer
* [[Anna Eliot Ticknor]], distance learning pioneer
* [[George Ticknor]] scholar, founding Trustee of the [[Boston Public Library]]
* [[George Ticknor]], founding trustee of the [[Boston Public Library]]
* [[Joseph William Torrey]], merchant, founder of the American colony of "Ellena" in [[Borneo]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1885/06/23/103024294.pdf|title=Obituary Notes|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|date=23 June 1885|access-date=21 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=63660020|title=Joseph William Torrey|publisher=Find a Grave|access-date=21 May 2017}}</ref>
* [[Joseph William Torrey]], founder of the American colony of "Ellena" in [[Borneo]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1885/06/23/103024294.pdf|title=Obituary Notes|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=23 June 1885|access-date=21 May 2017}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Warren]], physician and patriot, killed at [[Battle of Bunker Hill]]
* [[Joseph Warren]], physician and [[Continental Army]] patriot killed at [[Battle of Bunker Hill]] for whom [[Warren County, New Jersey]] is named
* [[Lawrence Whitney]], Olympic bronze medalist
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* Simon Willard, clockmaker of [[Simon Willard clocks]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/projects/Early-Families-of-Roxbury-Massachusetts/3445|title=Early Families of Roxbury, Massachusetts genealogy project|website=geni_family_tree|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-14}}</ref>
* [[Mary Evans Wilson]], civil rights activist
* [[Mary Evans Wilson]], civil rights activist
* [[John A. Winslow]], admiral in [[American Civil War]]
* [[John A. Winslow]], admiral in [[American Civil War]]
* [[Jacob Wirth]], restaurateur
* [[Jacob Wirth]], restaurateur
* [[John DeWolf (sea captain)|John DeWolf]], [[maritime fur trade]]r, first American to circumnavigate the world by way of overland across Siberia; uncle of [[Herman Melville]]
* Two British [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|war graves]], of a [[Royal Field Artillery]] soldier of [[World War I]] and a [[Merchant Navy]] sailor of [[World War II]].<ref name=cwgc>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2073079/BOSTON%20(FOREST%20HILLS)%20CEMETERY] CWGC Cemetery Report, details obtained from casualty record.</ref>
* Two British [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|war graves]] for a [[Royal Field Artillery]] soldier in [[World War I]] and a [[Merchant Navy]] sailor in [[World War II]].<ref name="cwgc">[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2073079/BOSTON%20(FOREST%20HILLS)%20CEMETERY] CWGC Cemetery Report, details obtained from casualty record.</ref>


<gallery>
<gallery>
File:WilliamLloydGarrisonGrave.jpg|[[William Lloyd Garrison]] grave.
File:WilliamLloydGarrisonGrave.jpg|[[William Lloyd Garrison]] grave
File:EugeneONeilGrave.jpg|[[Eugene O'Neill]] grave.
File:EugeneONeilGrave.jpg|[[Eugene O'Neill]] grave
File:EECummingsGrave.jpg|[[E. E. Cummings]] grave.
File:EECummingsGrave.jpg|[[E. E. Cummings]] grave
File:AnneSextonGrave.jpg|[[Anne Sexton]] grave.
File:Lysander Spooner Grave.JPG|[[Lysander Spooner]] grave
</gallery>
</gallery>


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==See also==
==See also==
* [[List of cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts]]
* [[List of cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts]]
*[[National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts]]
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts]]


==References==
==References==
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== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==
* Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=NCLiulhYAsoC&printsec=frontcover ''Forest Hills Cemetery''], Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 2009
* Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=NCLiulhYAsoC ''Forest Hills Cemetery''], Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series, 2009


==External links==
==External links==
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{{Commons category|Forest Hills Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts)}}
* [http://www.foresthillscemetery.com/ Forest Hills Cemetery] official site
* [http://www.foresthillscemetery.com/ Forest Hills Cemetery] official site
* [http://www.foresthillstrust.org/ Forest Hills Educational Trust]
* [http://www.foresthillstrust.org/ Forest Hills Educational Trust]
* {{Find a Grave cemetery}}
* [http://ben-yosef.com/pics/aged25/ Photos of Forest Hills Cemetery]
* [http://ben-yosef.com/pics/aged25/ Photos of Forest Hills Cemetery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194956/http://ben-yosef.com/pics/aged25/ |date=2007-09-27 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080213085824/http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/hotc/displayplace.asp?id=11488 Heart of the City] article and photos
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080213085824/http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/hotc/displayplace.asp?id=11488 Heart of the City] article and photos


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Latest revision as of 01:09, 21 November 2024

Not to be confused with Forest Hill Cemetery.
Forest Hills Cemetery
Forest Hills Cemetery entrance in August 2007
Map
Location95 Forest Hills Ave.
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Area250 acres (100 ha)
Built1848 (1848)
ArchitectBillings, Hammatt; et al.
Architectural styleColonial and Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.04001219[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 17, 2004

Forest Hills Cemetery is a historic 275-acre (111.3 ha) rural cemetery, greenspace, arboretum, and sculpture garden in the Forest Hills section of Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established in 1848 as a public municipal cemetery for Roxbury, Massachusetts, but was privatized when Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868.

Overview

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Forest Hills Cemetery is located in the southern part of Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. It is roughly bounded on the southwest by Walk Hill Street, the southeast, by the American Legion Highway, and the northeast by the Arborway and Morton Street, where its entrance is located. To the northwest, it is separated from Hyde Park Avenue by a small residential area. It abuts Franklin Park, which lies to the northeast, and is a short distance from the Arnold Arboretum to the northwest and forms a greenspace that augments the city's Emerald Necklace of parkland.

The cemetery has a number of notable monuments, including some created by notable sculptors, including Daniel Chester French, whose Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor is in the cemetery, and John Wilson, whose Firemen's Memorial is there.

Forest Hills Cemetery is an active cemetery where interments take place on most days of the year.

History

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On March 28, 1848, Roxbury City Council, the municipal board in charge of the area at that time, gave an order for the purchase of the farms of the Seaverns family to establish a rural municipal park cemetery. Inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery, Forest Hills Cemetery was designed by Henry A. S. Dearborn to provide a park-like setting to bury and remember family and friends. In the year the cemetery was established, another 14+1⁄2 acres (5.9 ha) were purchased from John Parkinson. This made for a little more than 71 acres (29 ha) at a cost of $27,894. The area was later increased to 225 acres (91.1 ha).

After operating as the municipal cemetery for Roxbury, Massachusetts for seven years, it was privatized in 1868 as Roxbury was annexed by neighboring Boston.[2] In 1893, the first crematorium in Massachusetts was added to the cemetery, along with other features like a scattering garden, an indoor columbarium and an outdoor columbarium. In 1927, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were cremated here after their execution; their ashes were later returned to Italy.

Notable people interred at Forest Hills

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Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor, a monument to Martin Milmore, built by Daniel Chester French between 1889 and 1893
Firemen's Memorial
Gateway and Bell Tower
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  • Large Weeping European Beech inside Forest Hills Cemetery
    Large Weeping European Beech inside Forest Hills Cemetery
  • Copper European Beech by the pond
    Copper European Beech by the pond

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Forest Hills Cemetery". National Park Service. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  3. ^ Augustus Charles Thompson, Nathaniel George Clark (1880). Discourse commemorative of Rev. Rufus Anderson: D.D., LL.D. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
  4. ^ The American renaissance in New England (Third series ed.). Detroit: Gale Group. 2001. p. 32.
  5. ^ Fletcher, Ron (2005-02-25). "Who's buried in Dawes's tomb?". Boston Globe.
  6. ^ John H. Eicher; David J. Eicher (2001). Civil War high commands. Stanford University Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1.
  7. ^ "Mrs. Howe Buried". The Boston Globe. January 29, 1892. p. 8. Retrieved November 20, 2024 – via newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Life's Work Ended. – Funeral of Albert Winslow Nickerson at Dedham". The Boston Globe. May 21, 1893. p. 5. Retrieved February 14, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Ranney, Ambrose Arnold". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  10. ^ "Frank Henry Shapleigh (1842-1906)". White Mountain Art & Artists. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  11. ^ "Obituary Notes" (PDF). The New York Times. 23 June 1885. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
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