Phipps Street Burying Ground
in Boston, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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25 Phipps St, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA Print route »
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The Phipps Street Burying Ground is a historic cemetery on Phipps Street in Charlestown, now a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The burial ground was created in 1630, when Charlestown was a separate community from Boston; it is the oldest cemetery within Boston's present limits. The "Charlestown Carver", an anonymous stone cutter active in the 1660s, began an important regional style that was continued by the Lamson family for many generations.The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
