Phipps Street Burying Ground

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.IntermentsSince it was the only cemetery in Charlestown for many years, it had a wide range of class and situation: Prince Bradstreet, "an honest man of color". Benjamin Gorham, Congressman 1820-23, 1827–31, 1833-35. Nathaniel Gorham, president of the Continental Congress. John Harvard, for whom Harvard University is named. Oliver Holden, an American composer and compiler of hymns. Edward Wigglesworth, a clergyman, teacher and theologian in Colonial America. Phineas Pratt, a joiner, arrived 1622, aboard Sparrow with Weston's men. Made a solo, treacherous trek to Plymouth to warn Standish of the Indian uprising at Wessagusset .