Trustees Records, Vol. 4, 1865 (page 208)

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Feby. 1, 1869 _

Trustees' Annual Report _
Trustees' Report.

Among the occurrences worthy of note in the last years' history
of Mount Auburn, is the purchase of two lots or pieces of land
situated on the oustide of the Cemetery, and separated from
it by an intervening road. One of these, sometimes called
the "Stone Meadow" is situated on the easterly side of
Coolidge Avenue, and has been brought of the heirs of Cornelius
Stone, at the price of $1000 ~ per acre, the lot containing
over five and a half acres, and costing the Corporation $5,543.75.
This lot, consisting in part of low or wet land, is to be used
as a place of temporary deposit for stone, rubbish and building
materials, thereby releasing a more valuable portion of land
now used for the same purposes within the Cemetery. It is
possible that, at some future time, the engine house with its
appurtenances may be removed in the same direction, with
the same economical purpose. The other purchase is that of a
part of an acre of land, with a dwelling house thereon, situated
nearly opposite the front gate of the Cemetery, and bought
of A. M^cDonald, for $4,000 ~. For various reasons, it was
thought desirable that the Corporation should control this
estate.

The work of reclaiming low lands in eligible situations has
gone steadily forward. The entire hill on which the
Superintendent's house stood, thirteen years ago, has been
levelled, and the earth used to fill up the meadow about
Halcyon Lake, and also to restore the necessary grade
where made lands have settled, as in some parts of the Lawn,
and of the meadow adjoining Thistle Path.