Granary Burying Ground

This guide to Granary Burying Ground in Boston centers on a single March afternoon in 1770, when ten thousand people filled the streets for a funeral procession after British soldiers fired on a crowd on King Street. It follows Samuel Adams, who organized the burial as a piece of political theater, and Crispus Attucks, a sailor of mixed African and Native ancestry carried among the dead alongside white workingmen. Look for the low marker just inside the Tremont Street gate, near the stone honoring Adams himself.