Mount Auburn Cemetery
Elizabeth Lohr is a Plant Records Associate at Mount Auburn Cemetery since July 2023, where expertise in horticulture and technology is applied to enhance plant collection records for a 175-acre Botanical Garden/Arboretum/Cemetery. Previous experience includes roles as a Gardening Assistant at Pemberton Garden Services Inc., focusing on ornamental gardening, and as a Community Engagement Coordinator at TerraCorps, promoting urban greening initiatives. Education comprises a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and Geography from Clark University, where additional roles included Administrative Assistant and Program Coordinator in respective departments. Prior research experience includes monitoring juvenile trees for the Greening the Gateway Cities program. Proficient in tools such as BGBASE, ArcGIS Pro, and various horticultural instruments, with skills in plant identification, data organization, and field research.
Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Mount Auburn Cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior, recognizing it as one of the country's most significant cultural landscapes. Founded in 1831, it was the first large-scale designed landscape open to the public in the United States. Today its beauty, historical associations and horticultural collections are internationally renowned. Our founders believed that burying and commemorating the dead was best done in a tranquil and beautiful natural setting at a short distance from the city center. They also believed that the Cemetery should be a place for the living, "embellishing" the natural landscape with ornamental plantings, monuments, fences, fountains and chapels. This inspired concept was copied widely throughout the United States, giving birth to the rural cemetery movement and the tradition of garden cemeteries. Their popularity led, in turn, to the establishment of America's public parks.