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Granary Burying Ground Review
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Granary Burying Ground 
- Address: Entrance on Tremont St., Beacon Hill, Boston, MA | Map It
- Category: Cemeteries
- Location: Beacon Hill and Boston Common
Fodor's Review:
"It is a fine thing to die in Boston," A. C. Lyons, an essayist and old Boston wit, once remarked, alluding to the city's cemeteries, among the most picturesque and historic in America. If you found a resting place here at the Old Granary, as it's called, chances are your headstone would have been impressively ornamented with skeletons and winged skulls. Your neighbors would have been impressive, too: among them Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin's parents, and Paul Revere. Note the winged hourglasses carved into the stone gateway of the burial ground; they are a 19th-century addition, made more than 150 years after this small plot began receiving the earthly remains of colonial Bostonians.
- Open: Daily 9-5
- Metro: Park St.
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