Granary Burying Ground
Place 2 of 19Massachusetts, USA

Granary Burying Ground

Granary Burying Ground emblem

The history

The 1660 graveyard on Tremont Street where Paul Revere, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and the victims of the Boston Massacre are buried — a whole founding generation under the slate stones.

The archival photograph

Entrance to Granary, Boston, Mass (NYPL b12647398-69535).tiff
1898 — Entrance to Granary, Boston, Mass (NYPL b12647398-69535) · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is