Mount Auburn Cemetery in North Brighton, Massachusetts

Mount Auburn Cemetery is a cemetery near North Brighton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It lies about 0.9 mi south of North Brighton. The grounds sit at about 43 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 1,333 notable people buried here, including Abraham Maslow, B.F. Skinner and John Rawls. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 600882. The nearest other listed cemetery is Watertown Catholic Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Stanton Funeral Service, Inc. in Watertown, about 0.4 mi away. It is one of 284 cemeteries we list in Middlesex County, and 160 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Middlesex County dates to 1649. 9 of the 284 listings in Middlesex County have a phone number or website on record.

This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, North Brighton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 219 writers, 90 scientists, 63 physicians, 49 artists, 43 journalists, 42 business leaders, 42 US representatives, 39 architects.

• Abraham Maslow1908-1970
  American psychologist
• B.F. Skinner1904-1990
  American behaviorist
• John Rawls1921-2002
  American philosopher, philosophy teacher
• Julian Seymour Schwinger1918-1994
  American theoretical physicist
• Claude Shannon1916-2001
  American mathematician and information theorist
• Robert Burns Woodward1917-1979
  American chemist
• Roman Jakobson1896-1982
  Russian linguist
• Oliver Wendell Holmes1809-1894
  American poet and physician
• Theodore William Richards1868-1928
  United States chemist
• Robert Nozick1938-2002
  American political philosopher
• Carl Ferdinand Cori1896-1984
  Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist
• Margaret Fuller1810-1850
  American writer and women's activist

People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Auburn Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.

• Watertown Catholic Cemetery

  North Brighton, MA
  Catholic cemetery

  0.2 mi
• Cambridge Cemetery

  North Brighton, MA
  Cemetery

  0.4 mi
• Arlington Street Burying Ground

  Watertown, MA
  Cemetery

  0.6 mi
• Old Burying Place

  Watertown, MA
  Cemetery

  0.6 mi
• Belmont Cemetery

  Watertown, MA
  Cemetery

  1.0 mi
• Burial Hill Cemetery

  West Cambridge/Harvard Square, MA
  Cemetery

  1.3 mi
• Old Burying Ground

  West Cambridge/Harvard Square, MA
  Cemetery

  1.3 mi
• Market Street Burying Ground

  Brighton, MA
  Cemetery

  1.5 mi
• Market St Cemetery

  Brighton, MA
  Cemetery

  1.5 mi
• North Cambridge Catholic Cemetery

  West Somerville/Davis Square, MA
  Catholic cemetery

  1.6 mi

• Mt Auburn Memorials Inc

  Monument dealer · Cambridge · (617) 876-9110
  0.3 mi
• Stanton Funeral Service, Inc.

  Funeral home · Watertown · (617) 924-3838
  0.4 mi
• Devito Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Watertown · (617) 924-3445
  0.4 mi
• Giragosian Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Watertown · (617) 924-0606
  0.7 mi
• Aram Bedrosian Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Watertown · (617) 924-7400
  0.8 mi
• Faggas Funeral Services

  Funeral home · Watertown · (617) 926-2163
  0.8 mi

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