Granary Burying Ground - Revolutionary-era burials

The Granary Burying Ground, established in 1660 on Tremont Street, is a historic cemetery that contains the graves of prominent Revolutionary-era figures including Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. It lies along the Freedom Trail and is one of Boston’s most visited colonial-era burial sites. Visitors and guidebooks often recount epitaphs and anecdotes about those interred there, and the burials are documented in cemetery and city records.