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Location: Granary Burying Ground is located at 95 Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Hours: Granary Burying Ground is open daily from 9:00 am- 4:00 pm. Confirm current hours here. Admission Fees: None. Tours: Walking tours that include a visit to Granary Burying Ground can be booked online here.
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The Granary Burying Ground was established in 1660 to relieve Boston’s oldest cemetery—the nearby King’s Chapel Burying Ground—from overcrowding. At that time, it was part of the Common, with disorderly headstones and grass maintained by grazing cows. In the 1800s, trees were planted, the Egyptian revival gateway and fence were ...
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21 de nov. de 2023 · Tremont Street, Boston. Significance: Place of Rest for Prominent Revolutionary Figures. Designation: Freedom Trail Site. MANAGED BY: City of Boston. Patriots John Hancock, Paul Revere, James Otis, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine; victims of the Boston Massacre; and whole families of settlers ravaged by fire and plague are interred in this ...
The Granary Burying Ground took its present name in 1737 when a granary, a small building used to store grain, was moved to the site presently occupied by the Park Street Church. All interments ceased at the Granary in 1880.
He was interred in the Granary Burying Ground. He left his fortune, including five enslaved black people and 195 dozen bottles of wine, to his sister Mary and brother Benjamin Jr. (who was later to become a Loyalist in the American Revolution).
