From Colonial Burying Ground to Victorian Park

When Copp’s Hill was first established as the “North Burying Ground,” it was just below the summit of one of Boston’s highest hills. Looking north over the colonial wharves one could see the towns of Charleston and Chelsea and the ...

Welcome to Copp’s Hill Burying Ground

About the Burying Ground

Copp’s Hill Burying Ground is the second oldest cemetery in Boston. In 1659, town officials became concerned about overcrowding at the Central Burying Ground (now called King’s Chapel Burying Ground on Tremont Street.) Land was bought on ...

The Old Burying Ground

The Old Burying Ground

At Byram Shore

Is Recognized For

Its Historic Importance By

The Historical Society

Of the Town of Greenwich

and

The Byram Garden Club

May 1999

Greenwich Landmark

Marker is at the intersection of Byram Shore Road and Byram Dock Street, on the left when traveling ...

Welcome to Granary Burying Ground

Welcome to Granary Burying Ground, one of the oldest historic sites in Boston! Famous, infamous, and unknown Bostonians are buried here. Men, women, children, Puritans, Anglicans, Catholics, English, French, Africans, patriots, Tories, printers, goldsmiths, merchants, and scavengers were all laid ...

Granary Burying Ground

1660

Within this ground are buried

John Hancock, Samuel Adams

and Robert Treat Paine,

signers of the Declaration of Independence;

Governors

Richard Bellingham, William Dummer,

James Bowdoin, Increase Sumner,

James Sullivan and Christopher Gore;

Lieut. Governor Thomas Cushing;

Chief Justice Samuel Sewall;

Ministers John Baily, Samuel Willard,

Jeremy Belknap and John Lathrop.

Marker ...

Old Quinn Burying Ground

Established June 2, 1849 by

Veteran of War of 1812

Loftin Quinn

In Consideration of His Love for the Church, He Conveyed the Burying Ground to the Trustees of Liberty Church And Their Successors.

Listed on the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register

Erected by Friends of ...

Savannah's First Burying Ground

When Savannah was laid out in 1733, the two lots on which this building stands were set aside as a burying ground. William Cox, surgeon, who came on the "Ann," was the first of the colonists to die and was ...

Old Quaker Burying Ground

Grave sites of the pioneer

families in Queensbury

Abraham Wing, founder

Marker is at the intersection of Quaker Road (New York Route 254) and Bay Road, on the right when traveling east on Quaker Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Copp’s Hill Burying Ground

Freedom Trail

Stroll round among the graves . . . lean on the free stone slab which lies over the bones of the Mathers . . . read the epitaph of stout William Clark, ‘Despiser of Sorry Persons and little Action’ ...

Poulain DuBignon and DuBignon Burying Ground

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This burying ground contains the bodies of several members of the du Bignon family, descendants of Le Sieur Christophe Poulain de la Houssaye du Bignon, native of Saint-Malo in Brittany. One of four Frenchmen, former residents of Sapelo Island, who ...