Hawes Burying Ground

The Boston Archive

park · official boundary

Hawes Burying Ground

Protected open space in the City of Boston open-space inventory. At 301 Emerson 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: 984 square meters
Boundary: held as GeoJSON at /asset/ffe450c91146375929de7b661a191611/hawes-burying-ground.geojson — 821 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Hawes Burying Ground, 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 984 square meters. — Rendered by the archive, served as `image/svg+xml` at `/asset/49c635e9d0f653ab2c2e9ab01c051776/hawes-burying-ground.svg` — 1402 bytes, SHA-256 `49c635e9d0f653ab`… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as `/asset/ffe450c91146375929de7b661a191611/hawes-burying-ground.geojson` (`application/geo+json`, 821 bytes, SHA-256 `ffe450c911463759`…). 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 Hawes Burying Ground, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Hawes Burying Ground 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 Hawes Burying Ground?

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 Hawes Burying Ground?

984 square meters, 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 Hawes Burying Ground 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/49c635e9d0f653ab2c2e9ab01c051776/hawes-burying-ground.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/ffe450c91146375929de7b661a191611/hawes-burying-ground.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest 49c635e9d0f653ab2c2e9ab01c05177632547e0d25886ce963aa7511eac377e0.

What does the wider world call Hawes Burying Ground?

It asserts none, deliberately. 1 candidate was considered and not asserted: Q130598640 (declined) — name agrees but type does not: this record is filed in this archive's `park` class, and Q130598640 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: Q130598640 — rdfs:label / skos:altLabel = Hawes Burying Ground, decided 3 September 2026 by archive-ingest 0.1.0

What does the archive hold for Hawes Burying Ground, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Hawes Burying Ground 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 — Q130598640 · declinedMatched against: rdfs:label / skos:altLabel = Hawes Burying GroundWhy: name agrees but type does not: this record is filed in this archive's `park` class, and Q130598640 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:hawes-burying-ground
Canonical URL: https://boston.fyi/place/hawes-burying-ground
As JSON: https://boston.fyi/place/hawes-burying-ground.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: 325
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/ffe450c91146375929de7b661a191611/hawes-burying-ground.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/49c635e9d0f653ab2c2e9ab01c051776/hawes-burying-ground.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`