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The Pumpkin Patch Burying Ground | King's Chapel, Boston MA
Before Boston was Boston, there was a pumpkin patch — and a grieving man who asked to be buried in it. That quiet wish became King's Chapel Burying Ground, the city's oldest cemetery, and one of the most haunted stops on the Freedom Trail.
In this episode of The Grim, host Kristin traces nearly four centuries of history buried in less than half an acre. We begin with Isaac Johnson, whose 1630 death seeded this plot of earth as Boston's first field of the dead, and follow the ground through its most disruptive chapters: a Royal Governor who seized sacred soil by force to build an Anglican…
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