The burial ground was established in 1634, as the front sign reads[2] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and was designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1981.

[3] The burying Ground is surrounded by a wall of concrete, with cut-out sections containing iron fencing along Columbia Road, which replaced a 19th-century decorative iron and granite fence.

The original gates still provide entrance and are signified by large commemorative bronze tablets placed by the city in 1883.

[4] The site contains over 1200 markers, many of early Dorchester settlers.

[5] Media related to Dorchester North Burying Ground (Boston) at Wikimedia Commons