The Central Burying Ground is a cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Famous burials there include the artist Gilbert Stuart, painter of the famed portraits of George Washington and Martha Washington, and the composer William Billings, who wrote the famous colonial hymn "Chester."

Samuel Sprague was a participant in the Boston Tea Party and fought in the American Revolutionary War.

[citation needed] When the Tremont Street subway was under construction in the 1890s, burials were discovered in the area abutting the cemetery.

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