Granary Burying Ground — Signers & Statesmen

Boston, MA

The Granary Burying Ground, established in 1660, is one of Boston's oldest cemeteries and the resting place of some of its most famous citizens. Among those interred here are the victims of the 1770 Boston Massacre, the parents of Benjamin Franklin, the merchant Peter Faneuil, the patriot Paul Revere, and John Phillips, the first mayor of Boston. It sits along what is now the Freedom Trail.

Boston, MA · est. 1908

This tablet, placed by the Paul Revere Memorial Association, marks the 1908 opening of Revere's old house on North Square to the public. Dedicated on April 19 — the anniversary of the fighting at Lexington and Concord — it was meant to inspire visitors, and especially the young, with the patriot's example. The house is among the oldest surviving buildings in downtown Boston.

Boston, MA

This plaque designates the Old South Meeting House, built in 1729, as a National Historic Landmark. As Boston's largest colonial building, it hosted the fiery mass meetings that preceded the Revolution — most famously the gathering on December 16, 1773, from which colonists marched to dump British tea into the harbor. The designation was made under the Historic Sites Act of 1935.

Boston, MA

Here, beginning in 1719, James Franklin ran the printing office of the New England Courant, one of colonial America's boldest and most independent newspapers. His younger brother Benjamin Franklin served here as an apprentice, learning the printing trade that would help make him famous. Later, from 1769 to 1776, Edes and Gill published the Boston Gazette on this spot — a fiercely patriotic paper that helped fan the flames of revolution.