There is something strangely beautiful about traipsing through an old cemetery, with its overgrown patches of foliage and ornate headstones.

In the early 19th century, these garden cemeteries became popular destinations for picnics and a mid-day stroll with their beautiful landscaping and shaded trees. The first garden cemetery in the United States , modeled after the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, was Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1831.

As different burial practices have become more common, such as cremation and green burials, larger memorial parks have become the norm, leaving these smaller resting places, with their weathered headstones and faded etchings, largely forgotten.

Drawing back the curtains of time, Choice Mutual, an insurance agency specializing in final

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