An estimated 100 people joined the tour of East Boston’s famed Bennington Street cemetery on October 26, 2024
Photographs courtesy of the East Boston Museum and Historical Society
East Boston Museum and Historical Society Board member Steve Gingras outlines some of the history connected to the tombstone below during the EBMHS Tombstone Tour at the Bennington Street Cemetery on Saturday.
Tombstone Tour moderator Steve Gingras addresses the audience attending the Bennington Street tour on Saturday afternoon.
EBMHS Board members Steve Gingras and Jeanne Scaduto Belmonte recount the history of Private First Class Aldred Goodearl, who was the first East Boston resident killed in action during World War I. Pvt. Goodearl died in battle in July 1918 and his remains were interred at the Bennington Street Cemetery a few years later.
