# List of rural cemeteries in the United States

The rural cemetery, or garden cemetery, is a style of cemetery that became popular in the United States and Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. This article is a list of rural cemeteries in the United States.
| Name | Year opened | Location | Notes |
| Mount Auburn Cemetery | 1831 | Boston, Massachusetts | The first rural cemetery built in the U.S. |
| Mount Hope Cemetery | 1834 | Bangor, Maine | |
| Laurel Hill Cemetery | 1836 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
| Mount Pleasant Cemetery | 1836 | Taunton, Massachusetts | |
| Rose Hill Cemetery | 1836 | Macon, Georgia | |
| Rural Cemetery | 1837 | New Bedford, Massachusetts | |
| Monument Cemetery | 1837 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | The cemetery was condemned in 1956. The land was purchased by Temple University and bodies reinterred to Lawnview Memorial Park. |
| Mount Hope Cemetery | 1838 | Rochester, New York | |
| Green-Wood Cemetery | 1838 | Brooklyn, New York | |
| Green Mount Cemetery | 1838 | Baltimore, Maryland | |
| Rural Cemetery | 1838 | Worcester, Massachusetts | |
| Glendale Cemetery | 1839 | Akron, Ohio | |
| Harmony Grove Cemetery | 1840 | Salem, Massachusetts | |
| Valley Cemetery | 1840 | Manchester, New Hampshire | |
| The Woodlands | 1840 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
| Chelsea Garden Cemetery | 1841 | Chelsea, Massachusetts | |
| Lowell Cemetery | 1841 | Lowell, Massachusetts | |
| Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum | 1841 | Dayton, Ohio | |
| Springfield Cemetery | 1841 | Springfield, Massachusetts | |
| Mount Albion Cemetery | 1843 | Albion, New York | |
| Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery | 1843 | Wilmington, Delaware | |
| Laurel Hill Cemetery | 1844 | Saco, Maine | |
| Albany Rural Cemetery | 1844 | Menands, New York | |
| Frankfort Cemetery | 1844 | Frankfort, Kentucky | |
| Allegheny Cemetery | 1844 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |
| Mount Pleasant Cemetery | 1844 | Newark, New Jersey | |
| Spring Grove Cemetery | 1844 | Cincinnati, Ohio | |
| Harrisburg Cemetery | 1845 | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | |
| Swan Point Cemetery | 1846 | Providence, Rhode Island | |
| Elmwood Cemetery | 1846 | Detroit, Michigan | |
| Forest Home Cemetery | 1847 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | |
| Cave Hill Cemetery | 1848 | Louisville, Kentucky | |
| Cypress Hills Cemetery | 1848 | New York, New York | |
| Forest Hills Cemetery | 1848 | Roxbury, Massachusetts | |
| Green Lawn Cemetery | 1848 | Columbus, Ohio | |
| Lexington Cemetery | 1848 | Lexington, Kentucky | |
| Oak Hill Cemetery | 1848 | Washington, D.C. | |
| Oakwood Cemetery | 1848 | Troy, New York | |
| Bellefontaine Cemetery | 1849 | St. Louis, Missouri | |
| Boxwood Cemetery | 1849 | Orleans County, New York | |
| Cemetery of the Evergreens | 1849 | New York, New York | |
| Easton Cemetery | 1849 | Easton, Pennsylvania | |
| Forest Lawn Cemetery | 1849 | Buffalo, New York | |
| Glenwood Cemetery | 1849 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | In 1938, the cemetery and all burials were relocated to Glenwood Memorial Gardens in Broomall, Pennsylvania. |
| Hollywood Cemetery | 1849 | Richmond, Virginia | |
| Mountain Grove Cemetery | 1849 | Bridgeport, Connecticut | |
| Oak Grove Cemetery | 1849 | Falmouth, Massachusetts | |
| Shawsheen Cemetery | 1849 | Bedford, Massachusetts | |
| Evergreen Cemetery | 1850 | Boston, Massachusetts | |
| Forest Hill Cemetery | 1850 | Utica, New York | |
| Indian Hill Cemetery | 1850 | Middletown, Connecticut | |
| Magnolia Cemetery | 1850 | Charleston, South Carolina | |
| Graceland Cemetery | 1850 | Chicago, Illinois | |
| Old Gray Cemetery | 1850 | Knoxville, Tennessee | |
| Ridgewood Cemetery | 1850 | North Andover, Massachusetts | |
| Cedar Grove Cemetery | 1851 | New London, Connecticut | |
| Dale Cemetery | 1851 | Ossining, New York | |
| Erie Cemetery | 1851 | Erie, Pennsylvania | |
| Evergreen Cemetery | 1851 | Owego, New York | |
| Wildwood Cemetery | 1851 | Winchester, Massachusetts | |
| Elmwood Cemetery | 1852 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| Greenwood Cemetery | 1852 | New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| Mount Hope Cemetery | 1852 | Boston, Massachusetts | |
| Oakdale Cemetery | 1852 | Wilmington, North Carolina | |
| Swampscott Cemetery | 1852 | Swampscott, Massachusetts | |
| Evergreen Cemetery | 1853 | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | Evergreen cemetery is part of the Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District and played a strategic role in the Battle of Gettysburg. It was the site of the dedication of the adjacent National Cemetery. Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address from a platform in Evergreen Cemetery. |
| Greendale Cemetery | 1853 | Meadville, Pennsylvania | |
| Mount Adnah Cemetery | 1853 | Fulton, New York | |
| Oak Hill Cemetery | 1853 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | |
| Oak Woods Cemetery | 1853 | Chicago, Illinois | The first burials at the cemetery did not occur until 1860. |
| Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery | 1853 | Poughkeepsie, New York | |
| Riverside Cemetery | 1853 | Waterbury, Connecticut | |
| Walnut Grove Cemetery | 1853 | Methuen, Massachusetts | |
| Woodland Cemetery | 1853 | Cleveland, Ohio | |
| Woodlawn Cemetery | 1853 | Clinton, Massachusetts | |
| Chippiannock Cemetery | 1854 | Rock Island, Illinois | |
| Hope Cemetery | 1854 | Worcester, Massachusetts | |
| Oak Grove Cemetery | 1854 | Gloucester, Massachusetts | |
| Oaklands Cemetery | 1854 | West Chester, Pennsylvania | |
| Evergreen Cemetery | 1855 | Portland, Maine | |
| Fairmount Cemetery | 1855 | Newark, New Jersey | |
| Mount Moriah Cemetery | 1855 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | The cemetery closed its gates in 2011 and had no owner after the last board member died. Philadelphia's Orphan Court appointed the Mount Moriah Cemetery Preservation Corporation as owner in 2014. |
| Mount Wollaston Cemetery | 1855 | Quincy, Massachusetts | |
| Oak Grove Cemetery | 1855 | Fall River, Massachusetts | |
| Riverside Cemetery | 1855 | Oswego, New York | |
| Sleepy Hollow Cemetery | 1855 | Concord, Massachusetts | |
| Mount Vernon Cemetery | 1856 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | The cemetery was placed into conservatorship in 2021 due to neglect. |
| Woodward Hill Cemetery | 1856 | Lancaster, Pennsylvania | Founded in 1850 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity and became a non-denominational cemetery in 1856. |
| Holyhood Cemetery | 1857 | Brookline, Massachusetts | |
| Lake Forest Cemetery | 1857 | Lake Forest, Illinois | |
| Mount Feake Cemetery | 1857 | Waltham, Massachusetts | |
| Vale Cemetery | 1857 | Schenectady, New York | |
| Green Hill Cemetery | 1858 | Amsterdam, New York | |
| Mount Olivet Cemetery | 1858 | Washington, D.C. | |
| Lindenwood Cemetery | 1859 | Fort Wayne, Indiana | |
| Oakwood Cemetery | 1859 | Syracuse, New York | |
| Rosehill Cemetery | 1859 | Chicago, Illinois | |
| Hillside Cemetery | 1860 | Middletown, New York | |
| Oak Ridge Cemetery | 1860 | Springfield, Illinois | |
| Chester Rural Cemetery | 1863 | Chester, Pennsylvania | |
| Crown Hill Cemetery | 1863 | Indianapolis, Indiana | |
| Monongahela Cemetery | 1863 | Monongahela City, Pennsylvania | |
| Mountain View Cemetery | 1863 | Oakland, California | |
| Woodlawn Cemetery | 1863 | Bronx, New York | |
| Dellwood Cemetery | 1865 | Manchester Village, Vermont | Designed by Burton A. Thomas |
| Cedar Hill Cemetery | 1866 | Hartford, Connecticut | |
| Hillside Cemetery | 1866 | Clarendon, New York | |
| Cedar Lawn Cemetery | 1867 | Paterson, New Jersey | |
| Lakeview Cemetery | 1867 | Burlington, Vermont | Designed by E.C. Ryer |
| Woodmere Cemetery | 1867 | Detroit, Michigan | |
| West Laurel Hill Cemetery | 1869 | Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania | |
| Glenwood Cemetery | 1871 | Maynard, Massachusetts | |
| Lakewood Cemetery | 1871 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | |
| Metairie Cemetery | 1872 | New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| Cedar Grove Cemetery | 1873 | Chaumont, New York | |
| Walnut Hills Cemetery | 1875 | Brookline, Massachusetts | |
| Woodlawn Cemetery | 1876 | Toledo, Ohio | |
| Homewood Cemetery | 1878 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |
| Highland Lawn Cemetery | 1884 | Terre Haute, Indiana | |
| Fairview Cemetery | 1885 | Dalton, Massachusetts | |
| Harleigh Cemetery | 1885 | Camden, New Jersey | |
| Riverside Cemetery | 1885 | Fremont, New York | |
| Riverside Cemetery | 1887 | Macon, Georgia | |
| Lakeview Cemetery | 1891 | Sweden, New York | |
| Cypress Lawn Memorial Park | 1892 | Colma, California | |
| Fairview Cemetery | 1892 | Boston, Massachusetts | |
| Hope Cemetery | 1895 | Barre, Vermont | Designed by landscape architect Edward P. Adams |
| Elmwood Cemetery | 1897 | Kansas City, Missouri | |

## Footnotes

* ↑ Linden, Blanche M. G. (2007). Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 293. ISBN 978-1-55849-571-5. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
* ↑ Barley, Luke. "How Thousands of Headstones Ended Up Under a Philadelphia Bridge". www.citylab.com. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
* ↑ "Wilmington & Brandywine Cemetery". www.wilmingtonbrandywinecemetery.org. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
* ↑ Pickard, Sam. "Glenwood: The Westward-Moving Cemetery". www.marplehistory.com. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
* ↑ "Oakdale Cemetery". www.oakdalecemetery.org. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
* ↑ Hawthorne, Frederick W., Gettysburg: Stories of Men and Monuments, Hanover, Pennsylvania: The Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides, 1988, p. 107.
* ↑ Historical Marker Database. "The Gettysburg Address". Retrieved August 10, 2019.
* ↑ National Park Service. "National Cemetery Walking Tour" (PDF). Retrieved August 10, 2019.
* ↑ Linden, Blanche M. G. (2007). Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-55849-571-5. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
* ↑ "History". www.friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org. October 17, 2013. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
* ↑ Bender, William. "Judge ousts absentee owner of historic Mount Vernon Cemetery. Rehab could involve goats". www.inquirer.com. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
* ↑ Schuyler, David (2004). "Woodward Hill Cemetery" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
* ↑ Cothran, James R.; Danylchak, Erica (2018). Grave Landscapes. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781611177992. Retrieved May 18, 2024.
* ↑ Friends of Lakeview Cemetery (October 2, 2015). "Lakeview Cemetery: More than a burial ground". Burlington Free Press. Burlington, VT.
* ↑ "Discover Our Proud Past". www.lakewoodcemetery.org. Lakewood Cemetery. Retrieved May 19, 2024.
* ↑ "Hope cemetery Guide". Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce. 2002. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007.