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
War memorials
20 of 48Names held in stone across the city.

9/11 Memorial
War Memorial
Boston

9/11 Memorial
War Memorial
Boston

9/11 Memorial
War Memorial
Boston
Arlington Civil War Memorial
War Memorial
Boston

Boston Logan International Airport 9/11 Memorial
War Memorial
Boston

City of Chelsea Dedicated to the memory of those who gave their lives in the service of our nation during the Korean War
War Memorial
Boston

Civil War Memorial
War Memorial
Boston

Civil War Memorial
War Memorial
Boston

Civil War Monument
War Memorial
Boston

Civil War Monument
d. 1867War Memorial
Boston

Civil War Soldier's Monument
War Memorial
Boston

Dedicated in Honor of the Members of Local 34 Who Served Their Country in World War II
War Memorial
Boston

Dedicated to the memory of the Soldiers and Sailors of Ward 2 who served in The World War 1917-1918 Presented by Alderman Samuel Falkof and Patriotic Citizens of Chelsea 1920
War Memorial
Boston

East Boston Vietnam Memorial
War Memorial
Boston

Honor Roll of World War II, Korean and Vietnam Wars
War Memorial
Boston

In honor and gratitude to the men from Jamaica Plain who sacrificed their lives in World War I, World War II
War Memorial
Boston

Indian War Memorial
War Memorial
Boston

Korean War Memorial
War Memorial
Boston
Korean War Memorial
War Memorial
Boston

Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial
d. 2007War Memorial
Boston
Locations
20 of 283Blue plaques, monuments and memorials.

100 Franklin Street
Boston

1965 Freedom Plaza
d. 2023
Boston

2017 Longfellow Bridge 2018 ∘ Linking Boston and Cambridge with Art and Engineering
Boston

2017 Longfellow Bridge 2018 ∘ Linking Boston and Cambridge with Art and Engineering
Boston

A Sharp Fight Occurred Here Between the Patriots and the British April 19, 1775. This Marks British Soldiers Graves
Boston

Abagail Adams Cairn
Boston

Adams Crypt
Boston

Aerosmith Apartment
Boston

Alexander Hamilton
Boston

Alfred Velluci
Boston

Anna DeFronzo
Boston

Arnold "Red" Auerbach "The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life"
Boston

Art Farm Fence
Boston

Arthur Fiedler Footbridge
Boston

Arthur Fiedler Memorial
d. 1984
Boston

At this place | April 19, 1775 | Four Citizens were killed | by British Soldiers | retreating from Lexington - Erected by the City | 1880 | Names of those killed | Isaac Gardiner, William Marcy, | John Hicks, Moses Richardson
Boston

B.A.A. Boston Marathon
d. 1995
Boston

Battle of Chelsea Creek
Boston

Beacon Hill Eagle Monument
Boston

Benjamin Franklin Birthplace Site
Boston
Legacy pages
1 of 1Lives 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.