Massachusetts
Suffolk
City of Boston

Granary Burying Ground

The Granary Burying Ground in is the city of 's third-oldest cemetery, founded in 1660 and located on Tremont Street. It is the burial location of Revolutionary War-era patriots, including Paul Revere, the five victims of the Boston Massacre, and three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine.
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  • Type: Cemetery
  • Description: cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Also known as: “Granary Burial Ground” and “Old Granary Burial Ground”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Boston Athenæum and Park Street Church.

Library
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The is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States. It is also one of several membership libraries, for which patrons pay a yearly subscription fee to use Athenæum services.

Church
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Park Street Congregational Church, founded in 1809, is a historic and active evangelical congregational church in , Massachusetts, United States.

Government building
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The , also known as the Massachusetts Statehouse or the New State House, is the state capitol and seat of government for the , located in the neighborhood of . is situated 690 feet northwest of Granary Burying Ground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown Boston and Boston.

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Downtown is really the heart of the city. Boston City Hall is here, and many powerful companies and agencies are headquartered in the area. Since urban planning was done here before the advent of the automobile, this area of town has secured a decidedly European flavor.

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A city of history and tradition, offers a proud legacy of culture, education, and numerous sporting championships. The "shining city on a hill"s independent spirit has been displayed to the world ever since colonists were angry over a British tax on their beloved tea and dumped shiploads of it into the harbor in protest.

Locality
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was a square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Now demolished, it was formerly located on the site of the current in .

Granary Burying Ground

Latitude
42.35734° or 42° 21′ 26″ north
Longitude
-71.06177° or 71° 3′ 42″ west
Elevation
59 feet (18 metres)
Inception
1660
Open location code
87JC9W4Q+W7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29861355
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­grave_yard
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­cemetery
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
4938063
Wiki­data ID
Q1140339
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Turkish—“Granary Burying Ground” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Qranari qəbiristanlığı”
  • Basque: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • Belarusian: “Грана­ры”
  • Belarusian: “некропаль Грана­ры”
  • Chinese: “穀倉墓地”
  • Chinese: “谷仓墓地”
  • Czech: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • Danish: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • Danish: “Granary Kirkegaard”
  • Dutch: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • French: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • German: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • Hebrew: “בית הקברות גרנארי”
  • Italian: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • Japanese: “グラナリー墓地”
  • Korean: “그래너리 공동 묘지”
  • Korean: “그래너리 공동묘지”
  • Korean: “그래너리 묘지”
  • Kurdish: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • Russian: “Кладбище Гранари”
  • Russian: “нек­ро­поль Гра­на­ри”
  • Slovak: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • Slovenian: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • Swedish: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • Tagalog: “Granary Burying Ground”
  • Turkish: “Granary Gömü Alanı”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Granary Burying Ground”. Photo: JPizzle1122, Public domain.