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PARK AND 
CEMETERY. 
EVOLUTION in LOT PLANS 
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass., is historic 
enough to have a monument to a member of Wash- 
ington’s body guard, modern enough to sell no lots 
without perpetual care, and original enough to have 
an appropriate name that is not repeated in the country. 
It was called Harmony Grove because of the number 
of song birds and wild flowers found within its pre- 
cincts, a name happily chosen and unique. 
On February 19, 1840, the cemetery was incorporated 
under the name of the Proprietors of the Harmony 
Grove Cemetery, and on June 14th of that year the 
dedication took place. During the years of its exist- 
ence it has steadily maintained its prestige as one 
of the most beautiful plots of ground set aside for 
cemetery uses in this country. The changes of the 
ideas which advancing years have brought in laying 
out and beautifying of lots are well shown in the dif- 
TYPE OF LOTS, 1840-1860; HARMONY GROVE CEMETERY, 
ferent sections; the family tomb was the first and per- 
haps will always be the highest type of burfal place, 
the lots surrounded by an iron or chain fence were 
also of an early type; later came the time of mounds 
surrounded by a granite curbing more or less elab- 
orate; now a plain lawn is considered the most desir- 
able. The simple grave-stone of the first epoch is 
returning, varied by an occasional cross of Ionic or 
other design and the elaborate monument once pop- 
ular is happily becoming a thing of the past. Examples 
of these various epochs are well shown in the illus- 
trations, which are from the book of rules, by-laws, 
and other information recently issued. 
Harmony Grove has had but four superintendents: 
Thomas Cruickshank, who served two years; Henry 
Creesy, who served six years; Charles Creesy, who 
served thirty-two years, and George W. Creesy, who, 
for the past twenty-eight years, has faithfully looked 
after the proprietors’ interests. 
TYPE OP LOTS, 1860-1890. 
