Boston is a city of many historical landmarks. Faneuil Hall, Old North Church, and the USS Constitution just to name a few. But many of these landmarks wouldn’t be noteworthy without the famous men and women attached to them. Let’s take a trip around Boston to see the final resting places of some of these historical figures.
Granary Burying Ground
120 Tremont St, Boston, MA
- Samuel Adams (Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence)
- Crispus Attucks (longshoreman victim of the Boston Massacre and the first casualty of the American Revolutionary War)
- Peter Faneuil (colonial merchant, slave trader, and philanthropist)
- John Hancock (signer of the Declaration of Independence and statesman)
- Robert Treat Paine (signer of the Declaration of Independence)
- Paul Revere (Revolutionary War Patriot and silversmith)
King’s Chapel Burying Ground
58 Tremont St, Boston, MA
- John Winthrop (first Puritan governor of Massachusetts)
- William Dawes (American Revolutionary hero)
Central Burying Ground
Boylston St, Boston, MA
- Gilbert Stuart (painter, known for George Washington’s famous unfinished portrait)
- William Billings (America’s first choral composer)
- John Baptiste Julien (early restauranteur known for Julien’s Restorator)
Copp’s Hill Burying Ground
21 Hull St, Boston, MA
- Shem Drowne (coppersmith and creator of grasshopper weathervane atop Faneuil Hall)
- Edmund Hartt (carpenter and owner of the shipyard where the USS Constitution was constructed)
- Cotton Mather (Puritan minister known for his connection to the Salem Witch Trials)
- Phyllis Wheatley (first African-American author of a published book of poetry)
- Robert Newman (patriot who placed the two lanterns in Old North Church for Paul Revere’s midnight ride)
Phipps Street Burying Ground
Phipps St, Charlestown, MA
- Nathaniel Gorham (president of the Continental Congress and signer of the U.S. Constitution)
- John Harvard (minister and namesake of Harvard University)
Forest Hills Cemetery
95 Forest Hills Ave, Boston, MA
- E. Cummings (poet and artist)
- William Lloyd Garrison (abolitionist, journalist, suffragist)
- Anne Sexton (poet)
- Eugene O’Neil (playwright)
Mount Auburn Cemetery
580 Mt. Auburn St, Cambridge, MA
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet)
- Winslow Homer (artist)
- Isabella Stewart Gardner (art collector)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Bedford St, Concord, MA
- Louisa May Alcott (author)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (transcendentalist and philosopher)
- Henry David Thoreau (transcendentalist and philosopher)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (author)
United First Parish Church in Quincy, MA
1306 Hancock St, Quincy, MA
- John Adams (Founding Father and America’s second president from 1797 to 1801) and First Lady Abigail Adams
- John Quincy Adams (6th president from 1825 to 1829) and First Lady Louisa Catherine Adams
