Granary Burying Ground

The Granary Burying Ground in Massachusetts is the city of Boston’s third-oldest cemetery, founded in 1660 and located on Tremont Street. It is the final resting place for many notable Revolutionary War-era patriots, including Paul Revere, the five victims of the Boston Massacre, and three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine. Among the graves in the center of the cemetery stands an obelisk, erected in 1827 for parents and relatives of Benjamin Franklin, who himself was born in Boston, but was buried in Philadelphia.