The Dorchester North Burying Ground (or "First Burying Ground in Dorchester") is a historic graveyard at Stoughton Street and Columbia Road in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
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| Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°19′0″N 71°3′52″W / 42.31667°N 71.06444°W |
| Built | 1633 |
| NRHP reference No. | 74000915[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 18, 1974 |
The burial ground was established in 1634, as the front sign reads[2] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and was designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1981.[3] The burying Ground is surrounded by a wall of concrete, with cut-out sections containing iron fencing along Columbia Road, which replaced a 19th-century decorative iron and granite fence. The original gates still provide entrance and are signified by large commemorative bronze tablets placed by the city in 1883.[4] The site contains over 1200 markers, many of early Dorchester settlers.[5]
Notable burials
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See also
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edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Photo of Burying Ground Sign". Find a Grave. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
- ^ Flynn, Raymond L. (1986). Historic Burying Grounds Report And Inventory: October, 1986. Boston: Mayor of Boston; contained in Boston Public Library.
- ^ "Dorchester North Burying Ground". Find A Grave. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
- ^ "Trees & Gardens – An Upham's Corner Photo Tour 2011 Dorchester North Burying Ground". Upham's Corner News Online. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
- ^ Davenport, Daniel (1826). "The Sexton's Monitor, and Dorchester Cemetery Memorial". Thomas S. Watts.
External links
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Media related to Dorchester North Burying Ground (Boston) at Wikimedia Commons
- City of Boston, Landmarks Commission.
- Dorchester North Burying Ground at Find a Grave
- Dorchester North Burying Ground Map, 1987
