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12 ❯❯ Top 10 New England Highlights

Historic Boston

Founded in 1630 by Puritans who envisioned their settlement
as a shining beacon to the world, Boston was among America’s
first great urban centers. Its patriots led the rebellion that grew
into the American Revolution, and few places in the US evoke so
vividly the birth of a nation. Centuries later, Boston remains at the
national forefront in politics, the arts, culture, education, and
science. It retains its Classical proportions, with modern
buildings nudging up against landmarks of the Colonial
and Revolutionary eras.

Massachusetts State House
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Completed in 1798, this legislative temple with
its ornate marble and paneled halls was architect
Charles Bulfinch’s masterpiece, and the model for
capitols around the country (below).

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8 Black History Granary
Burying
Trail
Boston’s free African Grounds
0 CAUSEWAY ST COMMERCIAL ST American community Some of Boston’s most
(3 miles) NORTH END helped lead the famous characters are
WEST 9 nation in struggles to buried at this Tremont
END MERRIMAC ST
CAMBRIDGE ST abolish slavery and Street graveyard of more
3 BOWDOIN STREET CONGRESS ST achieve equal rights. than 2,300 slate tomb-
1 The trail ends at the stones in the shadow of
BEACON ST African Meeting House. downtown skyscrapers.
TREMONT ST DOWNTOWN Boston Common and Public Garden
CHARLES ST
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Concerts and Shakespeare plays enliven the
(1.5 miles) 4 5 7 6 Common, Boston’s green heart since 1634. Tens of
Map of Historic Boston thousands of flowers bloom in the Public Garden,
while Swan Boats glide on its pond (below).
Fenway Park
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All baseball fans
long to see a game in
Fenway. Opened in 1912,
this is the oldest Major
League Baseball park,
and a shrine to the game.

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