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Large sculpture of an "American" Sphinx commissioned and paid for by Dr. Jacob Bigelow to commemorate the Civil War dead. Martin Milmore carved the statue from a single piece of Hallowell Granite and it was placed in the Cemetery in 1872.

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Historical Collections & Archives of Mount Auburn Cemetery

Transcribe the historic 19th-century materials that tell the story of America's first rural cemetery and the first designed landscape open to the public in North America.

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