Washington Tower
Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Watertown and Cambridge, Massachusetts

<i>&quot;The Washington Tower is a prominently situated structure in the middle of Mount Auburn Cemetery on the Watertown-Cambridge, line. It is used in the logo for the cemetery and is open for the public to walk up and get grand views of Boston. Though the tower itself is not named, there is a historical sign nearby and it is named as Washington Tower in the application for the cemetery to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The tower was originally designed and built by Dr. Jacob Bigelow with Architect Gridley J. F. Bryant, and it was built in 1852-1854, preceding the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, by 30 years.

General George Washington is well revered in Boston. It was only about 2 miles from this location that Washington assembled the Continental Army on the Cambridge Green. General Washington, with Henry Knox, was able to force the British Army to vacate Boston, freeing the city from occupation.&quot;</i>

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<i>&quot;Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded in 1831 as &quot;America's first garden cemetery&quot;, or the first &quot;rural cemetery&quot;, with classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain.[2] The appearance of this type of landscape coincides with the rising popularity of the term &quot;cemetery,&quot; which etymologically traces its roots back to the Greek for &quot;a sleeping place.&quot; This language and outlook eclipsed the previous harsh view of death and the afterlife, pictorialized in old graveyards and church burial plots.[3] The 174-acre (70 ha) cemetery is important both for its historical aspects and for its role as an arboretum. Most of the cemetery is located in Watertown, Massachusetts, though the 1843 granite Egyptian revival entrance lies in neighboring Cambridge, adjacent to the Cambridge City and Sand Banks Cemeteries.&quot;</i>


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