Granary Burying Ground
MA - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Tremont Place, Boston, Massachusetts, 02133, USA
MARKER
VISITOR INFORMATION
No separate ticket or staffed hours for the outdoor historical marker. Cemetery or burial-ground access follows posted local hours and rules; view only from permitted areas.
A roadside historical marker, free to read at any time. There is no parking area or restroom at the marker itself, so pull over only where it is safe to do so.
SITE FEATURES
Guided Tours
Performances & Programs
Surviving Structures
Peak visitation season unconfirmed. No reliable site-specific monthly attendance pattern was established.
Late May-June or September-early October for Granary Burying Ground in generally mild weather. Check current gate hours and allow time for respectful viewing from the established paths.
HISTORIC SITES NEARBY
Nearby Historic Sites
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WHO WAS HERE
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Samuel Adams
Paul Revere
John Hancock
Robert Treat Paine
About Granary Burying Ground
Granary Burying Ground contains the graves of many people central to the American Revolution, including Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, James Otis, and victims of the Boston Massacre. It also holds members of Benjamin Franklin’s family. The cemetery is therefore one of Boston’s most concentrated memorial landscapes, connecting visitors with the political leaders, activists, soldiers, and civilians who shaped resistance and independence.
The cemetery has 2,345 grave-markers, but historians estimate that as many as 5,000 people are buried in it.
History happened here at Granary Burying Ground
Peter Boylston Adams (1738-1823)
Samuel Adams (1722–1803)
Crispus Attucks (1723–1770) African-American victim of the Boston Massacre, in a common grave with the other four victims and Seider.
Christopher Seider (sometimes Snider, 1758–1770), a boy killed 11 days before.
James Bowdoin (1726–1790), prominent merchant, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts
Rev Mather Byles (1706–1788), prominent minister and loyalist
John Endecott (c. 1588–1665), First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
Peter Faneuil (1700–1743), benefactor of Faneuil Hall
Josiah Franklin (1657–1745) and Abiah Folger (1667–1752), the parents of Benjamin Franklin, along with other members of the Franklin family.
Jeremiah Gridley (1702–1767), lawyer, defender of writs of assistance in 1761
John Hancock (1737–1793)
James Otis Jr. (1725–1783), lawyer, Revolutionary War Patriot
Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), signer of the Declaration of Independence
Paul Revere (1735–1818), silversmith, Revolutionary War Patriot
Samuel Sewall (1652–1730) Salem witch trials judge
PEOPLE WHO LIVED HERE
PEOPLE WHO DIED HERE
PEOPLE AT REST HERE
Andrew Oliver
Lydia Henchman Hancock
Crispus Attucks
Elizabeth Checkley Adams
Abiah Folger
Elizabeth Wells Adams
Deborah Hitchbourn Revere
Rachel Walker Revere
Josiah Franklin
Sarah Orne Revere
EXTERNAL LINKS
content.boston.gov: https://content.boston.gov/cemeteries/granary-burying-ground
boston.gov: https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/document-file-12-2016/hbgi_summer_2011.pdf
Boston dates the cemetery's establishment to 1660; the city's historical newsletter records the September 5, 1660 reservation of land. The official visitor address is 120 Tremont Street, differing from the row's Tremont Place. Later landscaping and nineteenth-century rearrangement of stones mean today's grave-marker layout does not wholly reproduce the original burial landscape.
Accessed 2026-09-30