Building / Landmark · 1660 · Boston
Granary Burying Ground
The 1660 burying ground holding Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and the victims of the Boston Massacre — roughly 5,000 burials beneath 2,300 markers.
Photograph · Wikimedia Commons
Why it matters
One of the oldest things still standing in the region — dated to 1660, and tied to 9 other entities across four centuries of the city’s record.
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Living object
Now, then, future
Every object is temporal: what it feels like now, what it used to mean, and what it can become next.
Now
Thenbusy but readable. Best now: the older layer.
1591: Midwife and theologian (1591–1643) whose weekly meetings challenged Boston’s ministers; tried for heresy and banished in 1638 — the colony’s founding argument about conscience and authority.
Future2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.
Current modegolden hour
Historical echoAnne Hutchinson
Connected eventBoston 400 — The Quadricentennial (2030)
Pulse
How it feels right now
Current energybusy but readable
Best nowthe older layer
Best timegolden hour
historicserendipitous
Rain scoreexcellent
Indoor escapes within a few blocks.
Laptop friendlinessdecent
Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.
Student presencehigh
How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.
Tourist pressurelow
Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.
Historic densityextreme
Older records and historical edges around this object.
Serendipityhigh
Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.
Turn this into a walk
Routes with a point of view
Already a walkThe Other Revolution
The north slope of Beacon Hill was the center of free Black life in pre-Civil War America — the churches, schools, and safe houses where abolition was organized. This is the revolution the Freedom Trail walks past.
50 min · 5 stops · 20 min walk →Make it walkableShow me the best 45 minutes from hereTurn the surrounding graph into a short, walkable next move.
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Human recommendations
Civic memory
What this meant before
16601660Granary Burying Ground enters the civic record here.1686King's ChapelFounded in 1686 as the first Anglican church in New England; the granite building of 1754 holds the oldest pulpit in continuous use in the United States.1722Samuel AdamsBrewer, agitator and master political organizer (1722–1803) — architect of the Sons of Liberty, the committees of correspondence, and the meetings that became the Tea Party.1723Crispus AttucksSailor of African and Wampanoag descent (c.
- Established
- 1660
- Address
- Tremont St, Boston
- Online
- Official site ↗
- Graph connections
- 9
Plan your visit
Get there
In popular culture♪Charlie on the M.T.A. (1949) — The Kingston Trio (pop. 1959)▣Glory (1989) — Edward Zwick◷The Scarlet Letter (1850) — Nathaniel Hawthorne
On the Innovation Trail◆1897 · America goes underground — The first subway in the United States opens.
In the graph 9 relationships — first-class data, not links
Explore Granary Burying Ground in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →Associated with
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Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk
Person · 1 min walk
John Hancock
Building / Landmark · 1 min walk
Franklin Family
Person · 1 min walk
Anne Hutchinson
Historical context
An unexpected connection
Granary Burying Ground is linked, through the graph, to Paul Revere — person, 12 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
Keep exploring graph-powered — every path below is a real relationship, not a guess
NearbyA few minutes’ walk away
More landmarksOther landmarks in the graph
From the colonial eraOf the same period
Visitors also exploreReached through the same connections
One record, 1 framing cross-property publishing — never duplicated
How we know graph confidence — we explain our certainty, not just assert it
✓Source qualityBest source is primary / institutional
✓Independent corroboration5 sources across 2 tiers
✓Human-reviewedEditorially verified
✓Institutional backingCites a primary or institutional source
✓Record completeness100% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
City of Boston Primary / institutional
NPS Primary / institutional
Wikidata Q1140339 Open reference
OpenStreetMap way/29861355 Open reference
U.S. National Park Service (NPS API) Primary / institutional
The same entity, elsewhere
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density72
9 connections
Record coverage100
metadata completeness
Graph authority84
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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