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Dorchester North Burying Ground
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Location	Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°19′0″N 71°3′52″W / 42.31667°N 71.06444°W / 42.31667; -71.06444
Built	1633
NRHP reference No.	74000915
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 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. 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. The site contains over 1200 markers, many of early Dorchester settlers.

Notable burials

• Humphrey Atherton
• Henry N. Blake
• Richard Mather
• William Stoughton
• William Tailer

See also

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

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "Photo of Burying Ground Sign". Find a Grave. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
3. Flynn, Raymond L. (1986). Historic Burying Grounds Report And Inventory: October, 1986. Boston: Mayor of Boston; contained in Boston Public Library.
4. "Dorchester North Burying Ground". Find A Grave. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
5. "Trees & Gardens – An Upham's Corner Photo Tour 2011 Dorchester North Burying Ground". Upham's Corner News Online. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
6. Davenport, Daniel (1826). "The Sexton's Monitor, and Dorchester Cemetery Memorial". Thomas S. Watts.

External links

Media related to Dorchester North Burying Ground (Boston) at Wikimedia Commons

• City of Boston, Landmarks Commission.
• Dorchester North Burying Ground at Find a Grave
• Dorchester North Burying Ground Map, 1987

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