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1. CBG_190809_01.JPG: Central Burying Ground Central Burying Ground was established in 1756 as Boston's 4th graveyard. Most of the remaining markers date from 1790-1810 and feature a commemorative willow and urn design. The 1836 granite tomb holds those disturbed during the widening of Boylston Street and a mass grave holds hundreds exhumed during the construction of the subway in 1895. The cemetery serves as a final resting place for the painter Gilbert Stuart, America's first composer, revolutionary soldiers, and foreigners who died while in Boston.
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Wikipedia Description: Central Burying Ground, Boston
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The Central Burying Ground is a cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts. It was established on the Boston Common in 1756. It is located on Boylston Street between Tremont Street and Charles Street.

Famous burials there include the artist Gilbert Stuart, painter of the famed portraits of George Washington and Martha Washington, and the composer William Billings, who wrote the famous colonial hymn "Chester." Also buried there are Samuel Sprague and his son, Charles Sprague, one of America's earliest poets. Samuel Sprague was a participant in the Boston Tea Party and fought in the American Revolutionary War.

When the Tremont Street Subway was under construction in the 1890s, burials were discovered in the area abutting the cemetery. These were reinterred in a mass grave within the bounds of the burying ground.

Notable burials

* "British soldiers who died of disease during the occupation of the city [1775-1776], and those who died of wounds received at Bunker Hill"
* Caleb Davis (1738-1797)
* William Billings (1746–1800), composer
* John Baptiste Julien (d.1805), proprietor of Julien's Restorator
* Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828)
* Charles Sprague (1791–1875)
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