The Freedom Trail, Boston
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A red line on the pavement, beginning at the Visitor Center on Boston Common and ending out at Charlestown Navy Yard, links 16 historic sites on a three-mile walking route through Old Boston and Charlestown. Most of the sites relate to the Revolution and early US history.
Highlights include the impressive State House, Park Street Church, Old South Meeting House (a meeting here triggered the Boston Tea Party), Old State House (seat of colonial government – the Declaration of Independence was first read to Bostonians from a balcony here in 1776), Faneuil Hall, the 17th-century Paul Revere House and Old North Church – both in Boston’s ‘Little Italy’ so a good area to stop for a reviving coffee or lunch – and the USS Constitution (‘Old Ironsides’, a 44-gun frigate that’s the world’s oldest commissioned warship). History buffs will want to do the whole trail in detail (allow at least four hours).
The trail is easy to follow on your own or there are walking tours accompanied by a costumed guide.
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