US-MA-Lowell+Cemetery


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=Lowell Cemetery= 77 Knapp Avenue Lowell, Massachusetts 01852 Lowell Cemetery website Lowell Cemetery map

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Lowell Cemetery
Coordinates: 42.627258, -71.2898575 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Lowell Cemetery
The Lowell Cemetery was modeled after Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, which was organized a few years earlier as the first garden cemetery in America. These new cemeteries emphasized the physical beauty of the surroundings and created a restful sanctuary for those contemplating the departed, which was in sharp contrast to earlier burial grounds, crowded and unorganized, sometimes dispassionate and severe.

To accomplish these ends, the Lowell corporators chose an eminent surveyor, George P. Worcester, to design their chosen site with its natural setting of hillocks and trees. He enhanced his work by designing curved roads and paths under a planned canopy of oaks, beeches, and ashes. As the Cemetery grew, some local citizens memorialized their dead with elaborate carvings of stone, and the grounds became a depository of cemetery art. Many of these stones are of elaborate design by local artists to be studied and admired. Some few are even carved by internationally famous sculptors.

In 1885 a solid granite chapel was donated and erected by a benevolent lot owner in memory of her husband. This physical structure is today regularly available for memorial services.

Majestic gateways into the Cemetery Park were also gifts by local benefactors and added to the beauty of the site, now comprising 85 acres. From Lowell Cemetery website



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