It dates back to 1688, and its beginnings were not auspicious the British governor was looking for land on which to build a more ecumenical church for those who were not members of the city’s founding puritanical majority.
Close to the King’s Chapel Burying Ground is Kings Chapel, which is, indeed, the cemetery’s namesake. The Bostonian tradition of freedom had its exceptions. The cemetery also includes the nearby-by King’s Chapel Burying Ground, which is even older than Granary and counts Mary Chilton among its late illustrious personalities Chilton was the first woman to get off the Mayflower when it hit the coast of Massachusetts in 1620. Authorities indicate that there are close to 3,000 funerary monuments, though it is estimated that up to 10,000 people found their final resting place here amongst distinguished personalities such as the parents of Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere.
The thousands of gravestones appear to me like miniature villages. Let´s leave Park Street and take Tremont to one of the nation´s most important historic cemeteries and the third oldest cemetery in the city: Granary Burying Ground.
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