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Mary Ellen Welch Memorial Garden

A colorful memorial garden at the Marginal Street entrance to the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway in East Boston, created in 2021 to honor longtime neighborhood advocate Mary Ellen Welch. The garden includes native and adapted flowering plants, shrubs, seating, and a community gathering space, and it is cared for with support from the Friends of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway. PlotPal lists Mary Ellen Welch Memorial Garden as a community green space in East Boston, Boston. The public listing address is Mary Ellen Welch Greenway at Marginal Street, East Boston, MA 02128. The listed steward organization is Friends of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway / Boston Parks and Recreation Department. Verified participation information currently includes visit, volunteer, events programs. Friends of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway organizes community programming and a Garden Club that has held cleanup sessions at the Memorial Garden. On-site participation is subject to the current Greenway construction closure. Under normal conditions this is a public Greenway garden. The City of Boston says the Greenway segment from Marginal Street to Porter Street is closed during 2026 construction, so the Memorial Garden is currently treated as temporarily closed until that work reopens the segment. The Marginal Street–Porter Street section of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway is closed for construction, with completion anticipated around December 2026. Current verified participation or information links include Mary Ellen Welch Greenway updates, See Greenway community events. PlotPal last verified source information from Friends of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway on 2026-10-04. This public place page keeps verified location and participation context connected to the garden itself, so people can discover the place first and follow its current source information when they are ready to visit or get involved.