Granary Burying Ground

The Granary Burying Ground is identifiable by its Egyptian revival gate and the dense rows of slate headstones sitting in the shadow of downtown skyscrapers. Founded in sixteen sixty, this site was the third cemetery established in Boston, created when the nearby King’s Chapel Burying Ground could no longer accommodate the growing city. Although approximately twenty-three hundred markers remain today, historians estimate that over five thousand people were laid to rest here, including victims of the Boston Massacre and three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine.