Robert Morris Copeland
Robert Morris Copeland, Sr. (December 11, 1830 – March 28, 1874) was a landscape architecture, landscape architect, city planning, town planner and Union Army officer in the American Civil War. Along with his partner H.W.S. Cleveland of the firm Cleveland and Copeland, he is known chiefly for his cemetery plans, most notably Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts as well as contemporaneous designs around Massachusetts and New England. Biography Copeland was born on December 11, 1830, to Benjamin and Julia Fellows Copeland, who lived in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College, and opened a Boston-based landscape gardening firm with Horace Cleveland in 1854, which became known as Cleveland and Copeland. Copeland died suddenly on March 28, 1874, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is buried at his Mount Feake Cemetery in Waltham, Massachusetts. Copeland's house in Belmont still stands within the Beaver Brook Reservation, the first state park in Massachusetts. ...
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Roxbury, Massachusetts
Roxbury () is a Neighborhoods in Boston, neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts. Roxbury is a Municipal annexation in the United States, dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city for neighborhood services coordination. The city states that Roxbury serves as the "heart of Black culture in Boston."Roxbury
" City of Boston. Retrieved on May 2, 2009. Roxbury was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 before being annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868.Roxbury History
. Part of Roxbury had become the town of West Roxbury on May 24, 1851, and additional land in Roxbur ...
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