As we can see in the left side (photo 1) is Washington Tower.  This tower, standing on the highest point in the cemetery, was built in 1852 and is open from April to October.  Walk up to the Tower (95 stairs) for a scenic view of Boston and the surrounding region.
Photo 4 and 5
are Willow Pond area
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Auburn Lake area (photo 2) leads us to the family tomb of Isabella S. Gardner, art collector and creator of
the Gardner Museum.
Mary Baker Eddy Memorial (photo 3), on the bank of Halcyon Lake.
"The Deserted Village"


Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain
Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid
And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed
Dear lovely bowers of innocent and ease
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please
How often have I loitered o'er thy green
Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
How often have I paused on every charm
The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm
The never failing brook, the busy mill
The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill
The hawthron bush, with seats beneath the shade
For talking age, and whispering lovers made!
How often have I blest the coming day
When toil remitting lent its turn to play
And all the village train from labour free
Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree
While many a pastime circled in the shade
The young contending as the old surveyed
And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground
And slights of art and feats of strenght went around
And still as each repeated pleasure tired
Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired
The dancing pair that simply sought renown
By holding out to tire each other down
The swain mistrustless of his smutted face
While secret laughter tittered round the place
The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love
The matron's glance that would those looks reprove!
These were thy charms, sweet village...
                                                            
                                                                                               ~ by: Oliver Goldsmith ~
a rural cemetery envisioned as a place as much for the living as the dead.  When making the decision about what to call the new cemetery, the founders chose the name Mount Auburn, a simple change from what most already called the area, "Sweet Auburn".
Known to Harvard students as "Sweet Auburn", they had named this land after the fictitious town in Oliver Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village".  In 1825 George Watson Brimmer, a Harvard graduate, purchased the property in order to preserve its large trees.  He kept the land until 1831 when he sold it for the creation of
Weeping Cherry Tree