Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown

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colonial-era burying ground historic cemetery tourist attraction

Phipps Street Burying Ground in Charlestown is a historic colonial-era cemetery best known as the final resting place of John Harvard, the namesake of Harvard University.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Phipps Street Burying Ground	3

Statements (25)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	colonial-era burying ground ⓘ historic cemetery ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
category	Cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ Historic sites in Charlestown, Boston ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
era	colonial era ⓘ
hasCulturalSignificance	association with John Harvard ⓘ example of early New England burying ground ⓘ
hasFunction	commemoration of early residents of Charlestown ⓘ
hasNotableBurial	John Harvard ⓘ colonial-era residents of Charlestown ⓘ early Charlestown settlers ⓘ
heritageDesignation	historic burying ground ⓘ
knownFor	being a colonial-era cemetery ⓘ being the final resting place of John Harvard ⓘ
locatedIn	Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ surface form: Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts Massachusetts ⓘ
municipality	Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: City of Boston
namedAfter	Phipps Street ⓘ
neighborhood	Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ surface form: Charlestown
partOf	historic cemeteries of Boston ⓘ
region	New England ⓘ
usedFor	burials ⓘ

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Phipps Street → adjacentTo → Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown ⓘ

this entity surface form: Phipps Street Burying Ground

Phipps Street → associatedWith → Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown ⓘ

this entity surface form: Phipps Street Burying Ground

John Harvard → burialPlace → Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown ⓘ

Phipps Street → hasNearbyLandmark → Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown ⓘ

this entity surface form: Phipps Street Burying Ground