Granary Burying Ground

Granary Burying Ground
Granary Burying Ground
	Granary Burying Ground
Details
Established	1660
Location	Tremont Street and Bromfield Street,; Boston, Massachusetts
Country	United States
Coordinates	42°21′27″N 71°03′42″W / 42.35750°N 71.06167°W
Type	Historical
Owned by	City of Boston
No. of graves	6,000+
Website	Granary Burying Ground
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The Granary Burying Ground in Massachusetts is the city of Boston'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. The cemetery has 2,345 grave-markers, but historians estimate that as many as 5,000 people are buried in it.^[1] The cemetery is adjacent to Park Street Church, behind the Boston Athenæum and immediately across from Suffolk University Law School. It is a site on Boston's Freedom Trail. The cemetery's Egyptian revival gate and fence were designed by architect Isaiah Rogers (1800–1869), who designed an identical gate for Newport's Touro Cemetery.^[2]

^ Abel, David (May 16, 2011). "Colonial Resting Place Slated for Upgrade". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 12 November 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
^ James Stevens Curl, The Egyptian Revival, Routledge, 2005, p, 300