Dataset
Historic Burying Grounds Initiative Grave Marker Search
This is a dataset showing gravestone locations and information that are matched to surveys done of each of Boston Parks and Recreation Department (BPRD)’s Historic Burying Grounds. The Historic Burying Ground Initiative (HBGI) manages sixteen different City-owned burying grounds located in Boston…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Parks and Recreation
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 7
- Keywords
- Bennington Street, Boston, Bunker Hill, Copps Hill, Historic, Kings Chapel, burying ground, burying grounds, cemeteries, cemetery, granary, gravesites, graveyards, historic burying ground, monument, monuments, park, parks
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/historic-burying-grounds-initiative-grave-marker-search
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 1121821 | 5b41f851597602a884c10c39ee3b0479f80f24703305ee0ecae90332d8e0e644 | source |
| XLSX | referenced | 56305 | 2017910ca70cd377d585bebc60c88e3b39a10000a0937e6cb7e1c0d6043eddb0 | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
burial_last_name | text | |
burial_first_name | text | |
year_of_death | text | |
month_of_year | text | |
day_of_month | text | |
location_number | text | |
cemetery_name | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:historic-burying-grounds-initiative-grave-marker-search
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/historic-burying-grounds-initiative-grave-marker-search
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/historic-burying-grounds-initiative-grave-marker-search.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- historic-burying-grounds-initiative-grave-marker-search
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |