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A 90-Minute Walk Along the Freedom Trail

Boston has more sites directly related to the American Revolution
than any other city. The most important of these sites, as well as
some relating to other freedoms gained by Bostonians, have
been linked together as “The Freedom Trail.” This 2.5-mile (4-km)
walking route, marked in red on the sidewalks, goes from Boston
Common to Bunker Hill in Charlestown (see pp128–9). This first
section weaves through the central city and Old Boston.
See www.thefreedomtrail.org for more information.

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P A R K S T R E E T S O ME R S ET S T
COMMON PARK PL 3 Elegant Georgian steeple of Park
Street Church
B E A C O N S T R E E T
PEM B E R T O N SQUARE
OLD GRANARY
T R E M O N T S T R E E T
Park Street 3 BURYING
GROUND
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T R E M O N T S T R E E T Haymarket
BRO MFIELD STREET P R O VIN C E S T R EE T S C H O O L S T R E E T 5 C OU RT Government C O N G R E S S S T R E E T S AL E M ST RE E T
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CHAPMAN PLACE
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SPRING LANE
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Central City S TAT E S T R E E T C L INTON STREET NORTH SQUARE C L A R K S T R E E T
The Freedom Trail starts at the R I C H M O N D S T R E E T
Visitor Information Center governance shortly after the
on Boston Common 1 Revolution. Along Park Street, N O R T H S T R E E T
(see pp48–9). This is where at the end of the Common, The atmospheric cemetery FULTON STREET
angry colonials rallied against you will come to Park Street is Boston’s oldest, containing,
their British masters and Church 3 (see p50), built in among others, the grave of
where the British forces were 1810 and a bulwark of the colonial city founder John AT L A N T I C A V E N U E
encamped during the 1775–76 antislavery movement. The Winthrop. As the name
military occupation. Political church took the place of an suggests, King’s Chapel was
speakers still expound from old grain storage facility, which the principal Anglican church
their soap boxes here, and in turn gave its name to the in Puritan Boston, and more
Boston Common remains a adjacent Granary Burying than half of its congregation
center of much activity. Ground 4 on Tremont Street, fled to Nova Scotia at the
Walking around to the one of Boston’s earliest ceme­ outbreak of the Revolution.
north corner of the Common teries and the final resting place The box pew on the right just
gives a great view of the of patriots John Hancock and inside the front entrance was
Massachusetts State House 2 Paul Revere (see p23). Continuing reserved for condemned
(see p52) on Beacon Street, along Tremont Street you will prisoners to hear their last
designed by Charles Bulfinch come to King’s Chapel and sermon before going to the
as the new center of state Burying Ground 5 (see p60). gallows on Boston Common.

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