Forest Hills Cemetery
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The Forest Hills Cemetery (1848) in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (formerly in the city of Roxbury, now in the city of Boston) is an early suburban garden cemetery inspired by the Mount Auburn Cemetery. It covers 275 acres (111 ha).
Notable persons interred at Forest Hills
- Joseph Warren, American Patriot leader killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill
- William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist and reformer
- Lucy Stone, suffragist
- Anne Sexton, poet
- E.E. Cummings, poet
- Eugene O'Neill, playwright
See also
External links
- [Forest Hills Cemetery] official site
- [Forest Hills Educational Trust]
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