Memorials and blue plaques in Boston

Memorials, plaques and monuments across Boston — a quiet place to read about the lives held in the city's streets, commons and harbourside, and to visit them in person.

48 war memorials · 283 locations · 1 legacy page

View on map

War memorials

20 of 48

Names held in stone across the city.

Locations

20 of 283

Blue plaques, monuments and memorials.

Legacy pages

1 of 1

Lives in Boston honoured on a full tribute page.

Data sources

Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.

  • Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
  • Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) - never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.