Freedom Trail

Boston has so much colonial history, the city couldn’t fit it all in one place, so it build a red line to guide people around the city to see it.

25 May 2004

Freedom Trail

The National Park Service manages the Freedom Trail and only two sites require payment. As one walks the trail on a busy day, they pass numerous costumed era park interpretive guides.


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Old State House

Here the Freedom Trail begins at the Old State House, one of two locations on the Trail that actually charge admission.

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Boston Massacre

Re-enacted on the very site where British soldiers gunned down Bostonians, Jon and Marisol show how it really happened.

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Fanueil Hall

The Freedom Trail inspires pride in those near and far to Democracy and Freedom. Symbols, even in the absence of real thing, ring loud.

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Paul Revere’s House

Paul Revere was one of well over a dozen owners throughout the house’s history. It is preserved to demonstrate different periods.

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Red Line

A red line meanders throughout downtown Boston (as do the people who follow it), touring some 20 colonial landmarks.


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USS Constitution

The oldest active commissioned warship in the world rests in Charlestown Harbor, Boston.

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North Church

It was here that Paul Revere turned the beacon on, indicating to outlying towns that the Red Coats were coming!


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Hull St.

When Adele was a teenager in Brighton (a part of Boston), she hung out on Hull St. with her boyfriend, Rocky. She was elated to see that it looked pretty much as it had X years ago. She didn’t see, however, the skulking urchins absconding in the shadows.


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Buildings

On the way back from the USS Constitution, the adventurers took a T ferry and had this view of the Boston cityscape to speak of.

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