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Breed's Hill is a glacial drumlin located in the Charlestown section of Boston, Massachusetts.It is located in the southern portion of the Charlestown Peninsula, a historically oval, but now more roughly triangular, peninsula that was originally connected to the mainland portion of Charlestown (now the separate city of Somerville) in colonial times by a short, narrow isthmus known as the ...
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 burial location of 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.
On November 2, 1825, Willard was chosen architect and superintendent of Bunker Hill Monument, his design having been accepted by the building committee in the following year. [4] [5] Construction began in 1827. Willard discovered satisfactory granite quarries for the stone at Quincy, and the granite for the monument came from there. Willard ...
Bunker Hill Burying Ground 1807 Charlestown (Bunker Hill Street) Municipal [17] [2] South End Burying Ground 1810 South End (Washington Street) Municipal [18] [19] [2] Dorchester South Burying Ground: 1814 Dorchester (Dorchester Avenue) Municipal 2 acres [20] [21] Saint Augustine Chapel and Cemetery: 1818 South Boston (Dorchester Street) Roman ...
From left to right: the Skinny House, the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, and the Copp's Hill Burying Ground.. The Skinny House [1] is an extremely narrow four-story house at 44 Hull Street in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Tucked underneath a tree in the vacant lot near her house on the city's east side are a smattering of what appear to be headstones dating to the early 20th century, one leading to the other and ...
Death's head carved by John Homer, Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts Funerary art in Puritan New England encompasses graveyard headstones carved between c. 1640 and the late 18th century by the Puritans, founders of the first American colonies, and their descendants.
The bronze sculpture was cast in 1880 in Rome by the founder Alessandro Nelli and dedicated in 1881. It measures approximately 8 ft. x 4 ft. x 5 ft. 10 in., and rests on a red and grey Quincy granite base that measures approximately 6 ft. 2 in. x 5 ft. 4 in. x 5 ft. 10 in.