Resting Places

Historic garden cemeteries

The garden cemetery movement of the early 1800s replaced crowded churchyards with landscaped grounds meant for walking, mourning, and public life at once. Père Lachaise in Paris set the pattern in 1804 and cities across Europe and the Americas followed. These are the cemeteries in our directory whose source records place them in that tradition.

  1. Green-Wood Cemetery · Brooklyn, United States · established 1838 · 1091 documented notable interments
  2. Mount Auburn Cemetery · Cambridge, United States · established 1831 · 736 documented notable interments
  3. Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery · Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Canada · established 1854 · 382 documented notable interments
  4. Rock Creek Cemetery · Washington, D.C., United States · established 1719 · 309 documented notable interments
  5. Graceland Cemetery · Chicago, United States · established 1860 · 290 documented notable interments
  6. Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) · Washington, D.C., United States · established 1849 · 239 documented notable interments
  7. Albany Rural Cemetery · Menands, United States · 233 documented notable interments
  8. Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto · Toronto, Canada · established 1876 · 199 documented notable interments
  9. Green Mount Cemetery · Baltimore, United States · established 1838 · 160 documented notable interments
  10. The Woodlands (Philadelphia) · Philadelphia, United States · 134 documented notable interments
  11. Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont · Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge, Canada · established 1857 · 90 documented notable interments
  12. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts) · Concord, United States · established 1855 · 49 documented notable interments
  13. Mount Olivet Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) · Washington, D.C., United States · established 1858 · 40 documented notable interments
  14. Mount Hermon Cemetery · Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge, Canada · established 1848 · 38 documented notable interments
  15. Cimetière des Gonards · Versailles, France · established 1879 · 33 documented notable interments
  16. Evergreen Cemetery (Adams County, Pennsylvania) · Gettysburg, United States · established 1854 · 25 documented notable interments
  17. Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington, North Carolina) · Wilmington, United States · established 1852 · 24 documented notable interments
  18. Green Mount Cemetery (Montpelier, Vermont) · Montpelier, United States · established 1854 · 11 documented notable interments
  19. Mayfield Cemetery · Cleveland Heights, United States · established 1887 · 9 documented notable interments
  20. Mount Auburn Cemetery (Baltimore) · Baltimore, United States · established 1872 · 7 documented notable interments