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The Freedom Trail continued PLEASA NT STREET

Distances begin to stretch out on the second half of the WA R RE N S T R EET
Freedom Trail as it meanders through the narrow streets of H A R V A R D S T R E E T M O N U M E N T A V E N U E WESLEY HIGH STREET y
the North End, then continues over the Charles River to N E W R U T H E R F O R D A V E N U E M A I N S T R E E T S O L E Y S T R E E T MONUMENT TREMONT STREET
Charlestown, where Boston’s settlers first landed. The key SQUARE
Revolutionary and colonial-era sites here embrace two wars – WINTHROP STREET L E X I N G T O N S T R E E T
the War of Independence and the War of 1812. SQUARE
CITY
r View from Copp’s Hill terrace, Copp’s P A R K S T R E E T WINTHROP
SQUARE
The North End Burying Ground r.This was Hill Burying Ground WA R RE N S T
Following the Freedom Trail established in 1660, and the ADAMS ST
through the North End from cemetery holds the remains C H E S T N U T S T
Paul Revere House of several generations
(see p127), allow time of the Mather family – C H E L S E A S T R E E T
to try some of the Boston’s influential
Italian cafés and 17th- and 18th-century CONSTITUTION ROAD
bakeries along the theocrats – as well
neighborhood’s as the tombstones
main thoroughfare, of many soldiers
Hanover Street. Cross Gravestone at Copp’s Hill of the Revolution
through the Paul Burying Ground slain in the fight for
Revere Mall to reach freedom. Boston’s C H A R L E S T O W N B R I D G E
Old North Church e (see p73), first free African American t
whose spire is instantly visible community, “New Guinea,” Boston
over the shoulder of the statue covered the west side of Inner
of Paul Revere on horseback. Copp’s Hill. A broken column Harbor
Sexton Robert Newman marks the grave of Prince
famously hung two lanterns in Hall, head of the Black SQUARE
KEANY
the belfry here, signaling the Masons, distinguished
advance of British troops on veteran of the
Lexington and Concord in Revolution, and promi- C O M M E R C I A L S T R E E T
1775. The church retains its nent political leader
18th-century interior, including in the early years of the P R INC E S TR EE T
the unusual box pews. Republic. The musketball- HULL STREET
The crest of Copp’s Hill lies chipped tombstone of
close by on Hull Street. Some patriot Daniel Malcolm
of Boston’s earliest gallows records that he asked
stood here, and Bostonians to be buried “in SNOWHILL STREET NORTH END
would gather in boats below to a stone grave PLAYGROUND
watch the hangings of heretics 10 feet deep” to rest COPP'S HILL
and pirates. Much of the hilltop beyond the reach S HE A FE S T R E E T HULL STREET r BURYING
GROUND
is covered by Copp’s Hill of Brit ish gunfire. P R I NCE STRE ET
SAL E M S T R E E T e C HARTER STREET FOSTER ST AT L A N T I C A V E N U E
NO RTH B E NN E T T S T RE E T T I L E S T O N S T R E E T H A N O V E R S T R E E T

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e Unusual box pews inside Old North Church

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Date 1st October 2013
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