Dorchester North Burying Ground

Dorchester North Burying Ground
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°19′0″N 71°3′52″W / 42.31667°N 71.06444°W / 42.31667; -71.06444Coordinates: 42°19′0″N 71°3′52″W / 42.31667°N 71.06444°W / 42.31667; -71.06444
Built	1633
NRHP reference No.	74000915[1]
Added to NRHP	April 18, 1974

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.

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[]

• Humphrey Atherton^[6]
• Richard Mather
• William Stoughton
• William Tailer

See also[]

• List of cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts

External links[]

• City of Boston, Landmarks Commission. Dorchester North Burying Ground Map, 1987

Dorchester North Burying Ground, ca. 1895-1905. Archive of Photographic Documentation of Early Massachusetts Architecture, Boston Public Library.

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