Forest Hills Cemetery is a historic 275-acre (111.3 ha) rural cemetery, greenspace, arboretum, and sculpture garden in the Forest Hills section of Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established in 1848 as a public municipal cemetery for Roxbury, Massachusetts, but was privatized when Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868.
Forest Hills Cemetery entrance in August 2007
Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor, a monument to Martin Milmore, built by Daniel Chester French between 1889 and 1893
Firemen's Memorial
Gateway and Bell Tower
Forest Hills is a part of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Forest Hills is characterized by hilly terrain and wooded areas within and adjacent to its borders. In general, the area slopes upward from Hyde Park Ave and downward from Walk Hill Street.
Triple deckers on Weld Hill Street near Forest Hills MBTA station
Entrance to Forest Hills Cemetery
Former St Andrew's Church, now Bethel AME Church
Forest Hills Station, 2007