Bunker Hill and St. Martin Streets. Designed in 1891 by the firm of America's foremost park planner and landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, this playground is one of the best surviving examples of the neighborhood parks in Boston's original system. Olmsted included his signature meandering pathways, granite stairways and Roxbury puddingstone boulders. In 1942, the playground was renamed to honor Ensign John J. Doherty. This was Charlestown's first cemetery, established about 1630.
Local lore has it that the irregular layout corresponded to a map of the town.
Many of the stones feature the art of the Charlestown carver, an anonymous stonecutter working in the 1660s who developed an important regional style continued by generations of the Lamson family.