Memorials in Massachusetts

The bench featured in the film with Robin Williams and Matt Damon has become a popular destination for moviegoers.

These structures serve as a memorial to one of Boston’s most ambitious and controversial urban redevelopment projects.

An inclusive, climate-resilient playground honors the life of a young Boston Marathon bombing victim.

This memorial is dedicated to a once popular but now defunct discount Shrewsbury department store.

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

A memorial dedicated to victims of the Irish Potato Famine who perished while quarantined on this island.

Two stone markers honor the Nipmuc people who first settled here millennia ago.

A monument to the groundbreaking environmentalist sits near the place where she first experienced the sea.

Dedicated to nine marines from Massachusetts who perished during the Beirut bombings.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.

Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.