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 Pine Grove Cemetery (Lynn, Massachusetts) 1849 Lynn, Massachusetts Shawsheen Cemetery 1849 Bedford, Massachusetts Sleepy Hollow Cemetery 1849 Sleepy Hollow, New York 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.Hawthorne, Frederick W., Gettysburg: Stories of Men and Monuments, Hanover, Pennsylvania: The Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides, 1988, p. 107. 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. Lafayette Cemetery No. 2 1858 New Orleans 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

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