Building / Landmark · 1630
Phipps Street Burying Ground
Historic cemetery in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Photograph · Wikimedia Commons
Why it matters
One of the oldest things still standing in the region — dated to 1630, and tied to 1 other entities across four centuries of the city’s record.
Open the full civic recordCurrent pulse, routes, recommendations, and memory
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
Thenquiet enough to notice details. Best now: the older layer.
1822: 90-92 Main Street, Boston.
Future2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.
Current modegolden hour
Historical echo90-92 Main Street
Connected eventCharlestown 400 (2029)
Pulse
How it feels right now
Current energyquiet enough to notice details
Best nowthe older layer
Best timegolden hour
historicCharlestown
Rain scoremodest
Indoor escapes within a few blocks.
Laptop friendlinesslow
Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.
Student presencelow
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.
Serendipityquiet
Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.
Turn this into a walk
Routes with a point of view
What should I see next?
Chosen moves from here
The editor's hand
Human recommendations
Civic memory
What this meant before
16301630Phipps Street Burying Ground enters the civic record here.1780Warren TavernAmong the oldest taverns in Massachusetts (1780), named for the Bunker Hill martyr Dr.1797USS ConstitutionThe world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat, launched in Boston in 1797 and nicknamed "Old Ironsides" in the War of 1812.182290-92 Main Street90-92 Main Street, Boston.
- Established
- 1630
- Graph connections
- 1
Plan your visit
Get there
In the graph 1 relationships — first-class data, not links
Explore Phipps Street Burying Ground in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →Located in
Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk
Building / Landmark · 1 min walk
Phipps Street Cemetery
Restaurant / Café · 4 min walk
Warren Tavern
Building / Landmark · 4 min walk
First Church in Charlestown
An unexpected connection
Phipps Street Burying Ground is linked, through the graph, to Charlestown — neighborhood, 8 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
Also in CharlestownShares a neighborhood
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 open reference
○Independent corroboration1 source
✓Human-reviewedEditorially verified
○Institutional backingNo primary source yet
○Record completeness60% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
Wikidata Q7186417 Open reference
The same entity, elsewhere
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density13
1 connection
Record coverage56
metadata completeness
Graph authority23
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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