Eliot Burying Ground

Eliot Burying Ground
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°19′55″N 71°4′55″W / 42.33194°N 71.08194°W / 42.33194; -71.08194Coordinates: 42°19′55″N 71°4′55″W / 42.33194°N 71.08194°W / 42.33194; -71.08194
Built	1630
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	74000388[1]
Added to NRHP	June 25, 1974

Eliot Burying Ground (or ""Eustis Street Burying Ground" or "First Burying Ground in Roxbury") is a historic seventeenth-century graveyard at Eustis and Washington Streets in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It occupies a roughly triangular lot of 0.8 acres (0.32 ha).

Founded in 1630, the cemetery is the oldest in Roxbury^[2] (which was annexed to Boston in 1868). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The graveyard is one of several historic properties within the Eustis Street Architectural Conservation District of the Boston Landmarks Commission. Many well-known historical figures of colonial Massachusetts are buried at Eliot Burying Ground, including John Eliot, and members of the Dudley family, including Governors Thomas and Joseph Dudley, and Chief Justice Paul Dudley.^[3]

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eliot Burying Ground.

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

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