Massachusetts
Suffolk
City of Boston

Bennington Street Burying Ground

The Bennington Street Burying Ground is a historic on Bennington Street, between Swift St. and Harmony St, in East Boston, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established in 1838, in a late version of the traditional rectilinear colonial cemetery, rather than the rural cemetery style that was then just beginning to come into vogue.
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  • Type: Cemetery
  • Description: historic cemetery in East Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
  • Also known as: “Bennington Street Cemetery”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Wood Island station and Temple Ohabei Shalom Cemetery.

Metro station
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is an MBTA Blue Line rapid transit station located off Bennington Street in the section of , Boston, Massachusetts. is situated 670 feet southwest of Bennington Street Burying Ground.

Cemetery
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is a historic Jewish cemetery located at 147 Wordsworth Street in , . is situated 1,700 feet east of Bennington Street Burying Ground.

Church
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The is a historic Congregational church at 760 Saratoga Street in East Boston, . is situated 1,500 feet northeast of Bennington Street Burying Ground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eagle Hill Historic District and Bellingham Square Historic District.

Neighborhood
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The is a residential historic district roughly bounded by Meridian, Princeton, and White Streets meeting in Prescott Square in the neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Neighborhood
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is a historic district encompassing the civic and commercial heart of , . Roughly bounded by Broadway, Shawmut, Chestnut, and Shurtleff Streets, the district was almost entirely built in the aftermath of the Great Chelsea Fire of 1908, and is a monument to the civic planning that took place at the time.

Neighborhood
is a historic section of , , United States, and is commonly considered part of ; it is Boston's northernmost and northeasternmost neighborhood.

Bennington Street Burying Ground

Latitude
42.38095° or 42° 22′ 51″ north
Longitude
-71.021° or 71° 1′ 16″ west
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
Open location code
87JC9XJH+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29868149
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­cemetery
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Geo­Names ID
9688273
Wiki­data ID
Q4889885
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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 “Bennington Street Burying Ground”. Photo: Jameslwoodward, CC BY-SA 3.0.