Bennington Street Cemetery

The Boston Archive

park · official boundary

Bennington Street Cemetery

Protected open space in the City of Boston open-space inventory. At 495 Bennington Street.

Place

official layer

An official boundary, promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it. It is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer.

Filed by this archive as: park
Authority: City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department
Within: Boston
Area: 1.45 hectares
Boundary: held as GeoJSON at /asset/56594de1ad892008edcb3dbaaf69934b/bennington-street-cemetery.geojson — 810 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Bennington Street Cemetery, a park in the record of Boston, Massachusetts, within Boston. The outline is an official boundary, promulgated by City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department. It encloses approximately 1.45 hectares. — Rendered by the archive, served as `image/svg+xml` at `/asset/06dae418e7c93e1b11d7acfb1659673b/bennington-street-cemetery.svg` — 1417 bytes, SHA-256 `06dae418e7c93e1b`… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as `/asset/56594de1ad892008edcb3dbaaf69934b/bennington-street-cemetery.geojson` (`application/geo+json`, 810 bytes, SHA-256 `56594de1ad892008`…). The map is simplified for drawing; the boundary is not.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Where is Bennington Street Cemetery, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Bennington Street Cemetery is recorded as a park, within Boston. The archive holds its boundary on the official layer: promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Who drew the boundary of Bennington Street Cemetery?

City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department promulgated it. A boundary with no promulgating authority is an assertion rather than a fact, and this archive files those separately, as claims.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

How large is Bennington Street Cemetery?

1.45 hectares, computed from the boundary the archive holds and not quoted from elsewhere.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does the archive's map of Bennington Street Cemetery show?

A static map of the boundary, rendered by the archive on a server and never in a reader's browser, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/06dae418e7c93e1b11d7acfb1659673b/bennington-street-cemetery.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/56594de1ad892008edcb3dbaaf69934b/bennington-street-cemetery.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 06dae418e7c93e1b11d7acfb1659673b7323c3b2499a82edea871d4eb0339747.

What does the wider world call Bennington Street Cemetery?

It asserts none, deliberately. 1 candidate was considered and not asserted: Q4889885 (declined) — name agrees but type does not: this record is filed in this archive's `park` class, and Q4889885 is classed on Wikidata as cemetery. A wrong sameAs is worse than none: under OWL semantics it instructs a consumer to merge two things into one, so the archive asserts an identity only where it can defend it and publishes the refusal where it cannot. Every verdict is in the reconciliation ledger at /reconciliation.

Attested by: Q4889885 — rdfs:label / skos:altLabel = Bennington Street Burying Ground, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0

What does the archive hold for Bennington Street Cemetery, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Bennington Street Cemetery from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 4 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Candidates the archive declined

Identities that were considered and not asserted. They are published here rather than merely filed, because a decision nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having looked. A candidate is DECLINED where the archive weighed it and refused it, and HELD where the archive asserts it nowhere on this record — most often because it is asserted on the archive's principal record for the same place, and asserting it twice would instruct a consumer to merge two records the archive deliberately keeps apart. Each row states which, in its own words. A wrong sameAs is worse than none. Every verdict is in the reconciliation ledger.

Wikidata — Q4889885 · declinedMatched against: rdfs:label / skos:altLabel = Bennington Street Burying GroundWhy: name agrees but type does not: this record is filed in this archive's `park` class, and Q4889885 is classed on Wikidata as cemeteryMethod: label-type-geography within the P131=Q100 candidate pool · Decided 3 September 2026

Related records

located in — Boston

Identity

Identifier: urn:lemay:boston:entity:bennington-street-cemetery
Canonical URL: https://boston.fyi/place/bennington-street-cemetery
As JSON: https://boston.fyi/place/bennington-street-cemetery.json
Version: 1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
License: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved: 2 September 2026
Source identifier: 257
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 GeoJSON from the City of Boston open-data portal	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`
2	`normalize`	the source's own name field became the record title; no name was supplied by the archive	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`
3	`reproject`	the source is WGS 84 (EPSG:4326); geometry was set to that SRID without alteration of coordinates	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`
4	`externalize-boundary`	The boundary left the inline page graph and became two preserved holdings: the exact coordinates at /asset/56594de1ad892008edcb3dbaaf69934b/bennington-street-cemetery.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/06dae418e7c93e1b11d7acfb1659673b/bennington-street-cemetery.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`