Boston’s Back Bay is viewed from the stone tower in Mount Auburn Cemetery. The Fullers are buried nearby.
Mount Auburn Cemetery, at the edge of Cambridge and Watertown in Greater Boston, not only lays claim to being the first garden cemetery in America but also boasts some of the most notable names in the nation’s history.
This small family plot, for instance, holds the remains of Transcendentalist leader Margaret Fuller and pioneering architect Buckminister Fuller.
Margaret Fuller Ossoli’s inscription reads, in part: By birth a child of New England, By adoption a citizen of Rome, By genius belonging to the world.