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Central Burying Ground, Boston

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was under construction in the 1890s, burials were discovered in the area abutting the cemetery. These were reinterred in a mass grave within the bounds of the burying ground.
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Bacon. Book of Boston: fifty years' recollections of the New England metropolis. 1916.
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Gravestone inscriptions and records of tomb burials in the Central burying ground
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Detail of 1814 map of Boston, showing Central Burying Ground
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Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff. "Central Burying-Ground."
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Boston Common
Boston
cemetery
Boston
Massachusetts
Boston Common
Boylston Street
Tremont Street
Charles Street
Gilbert Stuart
George Washington
Martha Washington
William Billings
Charles Sprague
Boston Tea Party
American Revolutionary War
Tremont Street subway
occupation of the city
Bunker Hill
William Billings
Caleb Davis
Stephen Higginson
John Baptiste Julien
Julien's Restorator
Gilbert Stuart
Charles Sprague
Funerary art in Puritan New England
List of cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts
Marker of Chow Manderien, died 1798 (photo from 2008)

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