Marker for Revolutionary War Soldiers, Dorchester Illustration 2676
Revolutionary War soldiers are remembered by a marker in the Dorchester Old North Burying Ground. This was the only public cemetery in Dorchester from the 1630s until 1814, when the South Burying Ground was opened on Dorchester Avenue, a little south of Gallivan Boulevard.
The marker is a boulder and bronze tablet that lies over the graves of Revolutionary War soldiers, who died during the siege of Boston and were buried in the years 1775-1776. It was erected in 1903 by the Massachusetts Society of Sons of the American Revolution.