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The Freedom Trail is a unique collection of museums, churches, meeting houses, burying grounds, parks, a ship, and historic markers that tell the story of the American Revolution and beyond.
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Walk Into History®
The Freedom Trail Foundation’s most popular tour highlights the revolutionary history that took place at 11 of the 16 official Freedom Trail historic sites.
North End
North End Tours highlight official Freedom Trail historic sites such as Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere House, Old North Church, and Copp’s Hill Burying Ground, and other historic places in Boston’s oldest neighborhood.
Private & Custom
All Freedom Trail tours led by 18th-century costumed guides are excellent for families, school field trips, corporate team building, incentives, and convention activities. These tours can be customized to fit your group’s schedule and are available year round.
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What People Are Saying
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Yelp Review
The Freedom Trail is one of the iconic touristy things to do in Boston, and there’s a reason for that. I did the full trail many, many years ago but decided to go with this shorter, more compact trail with our family. The 1.5 hour length is the right duration for kids, and our guide, Jeremiah Poope (his actual last name!), kept it interesting the entire time. He has been a tour guide in Boston for many years, and he had a ton of interesting stories and facts beyond the typical revolutionary war factoids.
Wendy L.
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Email Review
We had a wonderful time and your guides were wonderful. They were energetic, informed, and brought history to life. Thank you once again!
Hana R.
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TripAdvisor Review
We only had 1 day to explore downtown Boston, and this tour was a great way to see several different sites, learn about history, and get a bit of walking in. We were a few minutes late for the start of the 1pm tour but easily able to catch up and join in.!
Our tour guide was fantastic! One member of my group uses a wheelchair, and the guide was great about leading the WHOLE tour through accessible entrances to sites and to sidewalks with curb cuts so that all of us could participate without feeling singled out.Natalie N.
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TripAdvisor Review
Great tour with Isaiah Thomas! Great local guide who was very engaging and a walking encyclopedia of Boston history. It was a nice 1.5 hr walking tour hitting most of the south end Freedom Trail points of interest.
For the money, it’s hard to beat!Bluff City
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Yelp Review
The Freedom Trail Walking tour presents full of historic knowledge and our guide, Parker, provides us the best experience for this amazing learning adventure. That is to say, in this tour you can also learn about the myth and the truth of the history we learned from our textbooks. I would recommend anyone who visit Boston and is interested in learning history or simply just want to listen to funny stories
Han Yu W.
Freedom Trail Preservation
Boston’s iconic 2.5 mile-Freedom Trail connects 16 nationally significant historic sites, each one an authentic treasure. Thanks to preservation efforts, these cultural assets are still intact, which makes Boston truly unique as one of the few places in America to experience the actual sites and learn the history they tell while walking through modern city streets.
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Trail Sites | The Freedom Trail
Established in 1634, Boston Common is America’s oldest public park.
Puritan colonists purchased the land rights to the Common’s 44 acres from the first European settler of the area, Anglican minister William Blackstone.
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Designed by Charles Bulfinch, the ‘new’ and current State House has served as the seat of Massachusetts government since its opening in 1798. Holding the legislative and executive branches, it sits adjacent to the former site of the historic Hancock mansion.
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The church was founded in 1809, at the corner of Park and Tremont Streets, atop the site of Boston’s town grain storage building, or granary. Designed by Peter Banner, the 217 ft. steeple of Park Street Church was once the first landmark travelers saw when approaching Boston.
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Established in 1660, some of America’s most notable citizens rest here. Named for the 12,000-bushel grain storage building that was once next door, the historic burying ground has approximately 2,300 markers.
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Founded in 1686 as Boston’s first Anglican church, King’s Chapel is home to over 330 years of history. The 1754 granite building still stands on the church’s original site: the corner of Boston’s oldest English burying ground.
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Boston Latin School, founded on April 23, 1635, is the oldest public school in America. It offered free education to boys — rich or poor — while girls attended private schools at home. Until the completion of the schoolhouse in 1645, classes were held in the home of the first headmaster, Philemon Pormont. A mosaic and a statue of former student Benjamin Franklin currently marks the location of the original schoolhouse.
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Constructed in 1718, the Old Corner Bookstore is downtown Boston’s oldest commercial building and was home to the 19th-century publishing giant Ticknor and Fields, producer of many venerable American titles including Thoreau’s Walden, Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Longfellow’s Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, and the Atlantic Monthly including Ward Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Saved from demolition in 1960, the building’s leases help subsidize important historic preservation projects in Boston’s neighborhoods.
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Experience history where the Boston Tea Party began! This hall rang with words from Puritan sermons, public meetings, and the tea tax debates — visit Old South Meeting House and add your voice to history.
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Through Massacre, Revolution, and fire, the Old State House stands as the oldest surviving public building in Boston. Built in 1713, the building served as the center of civic, political, and business life.
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On March 5, 1770, after months of tensions due to occupation and taxation, Bostonians and Redcoats clashed in the streets of Boston. What ended with five civilians killed by gunfire, Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr, led to the rallying of Bostonians against the Crown and the evacuation of troops in Boston.
They would not return until 1774.
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Often referred to as «the home of free speech» and the «Cradle of Liberty,» Faneuil Hall hosted America’s first Town Meeting. The Hall’s vital role in revolutionary politics had not been part of its original plans, but it became home to an intricate collection of events that shaped the nation’s history.
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Built around 1680, the Paul Revere House, owned by the legendary patriot from 1770-1800, is the oldest remaining structure in downtown Boston and also the only official Freedom Trail historic site that is a home.
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Visit the site that launched the American Revolution! Built in 1723, Boston’s oldest church is best known for the midnight ride of Paul Revere and “One if by land, two if by sea.”
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Named after shoemaker William Copp, Copp’s Hill Burying Ground is the final resting place and burying ground of merchants, artisans, and craftspeople who lived in the North End.
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Launched in Boston in 1797, USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat and earned her nickname «Old Ironsides» during the War of 1812 when she fought the British frigate HMS Guerriere.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, was the first major battle of the Revolutionary War and predicted the character and outcome of the rest of the war.
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Liberty (ode) — Pushkin. The full text of the poem is Liberty (ode)
Run, hide from the eyes,
Cythera, weak queen!
Where are you, where are you, storm of kings,
Freedom is a proud singer?
Come, pluck the wreath from me,
Break the pampered lyre…
I want to sing Freedom to the world,
On the thrones strike vice.
Reveal to me a noble trail
That sublime Gallus
To whom in the midst of glorious troubles
You inspired bold hymns.
Pets of Windy Fate,
Tyrants of the world! tremble!
And you, take heart and listen,
Arise, fallen slaves!
Alas! wherever I cast my eyes —
Everywhere scourges, everywhere glands,
Laws disastrous shame,
Captivity weak tears;
Unrighteous Power Everywhere
In the Condensed Haze of Prejudice
The Formidable Genius Sits Down—Slavery
And Fatal Passion of Glory.
Only there, above the royal head
Peoples did not suffer suffering,
Where the saint is strong with Liberty
Powerful combination of Laws;
Where their solid shield is stretched out to all,
Where it is clenched by faithful hands
Citizens over equal heads
Their sword slides without choice
And crime from above
Fights with a righteous sweep;
Where their hand is not corruptible
Neither greedy stinginess nor fear.
Masters! crown and throne to you
The law gives you, not nature;
You stand above the people,
But the eternal Law is above you.
And woe, woe to the tribes,
Where he carelessly slumbers,
Where either to the people, or to the kings
It is possible to rule by law!
I call you as a witness,
O martyr of glorious mistakes,
For the ancestors in the noise of recent storms
Laid down the royal head.
Ludovic ascends to death
In the sight of silent offspring,
The head of the debunked
To the bloody chopping block of Treachery.
The law is silent — the people are silent,
The criminal ax will fall…
Self-ruling villain!
I hate you, your throne,
Your death, the death of children
I see with cruel joy.
They read on your forehead
The seal of the curse of the nations,
You are the horror of the world, the shame of nature,
You reproach God on earth.
When a midnight star sparkles
on a gloomy Neva
and a carefree chapter
The calm sleep burns out,
looks at the thoughtful singer
at a menacingly sleeping in the tuman
Desert Monument Tirana,
For oblivion the abandoned palace and hears the Kliya terrible voice
FOR SIMI walls,
Caligula’s last hour
He sees vividly before his eyes,
He sees — in ribbons and stars,
Intoxicated with wine and malice,
Secret murderers are coming,
Insolence on the faces, fear in the heart.
The unfaithful sentinel is silent,
The drawbridge is silently lowered,
The gates are opened in the darkness of night
By the hand of treachery hired…
Oh, shame! oh the horror of our days!
The Janissaries invaded like beasts!..
Infamous blows will fall…
The crowned villain perished.
Learn today, O kings:
No punishment, no reward,
No shelter for dungeons, no altars
Fences that are not true for you.
Bow the first head
Under the reliable shade of the Law,
And become the eternal guardians of the throne
Peoples liberty and peace
1817
PRO | Trace of Russia No. 3. Shipka. Freedom Monument
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3. Shipka. Freedom Monument
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894 steps must be overcome to climb to the Freedom Monument and see with your own eyes what happened on this site almost 140 years ago. We are watching the 3rd (final) series dedicated to the trace of Russia on Shipka (Bulgaria).
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