Harleigh Cemetery - Walt Whitman's Tomb

Walt Whitman, the great American poet, designed his own tomb to resemble an etching by poet William Blake. Two women in Victorian dress visit Whitman’s tomb in the circa 1900 photo above. Whitman moved to Camden in 1873 where he completed his book of poems, Leaves of Grass, in 1881. Ralph Waldo Emerson found Whitman’s book to be “the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.”