Budget · 3-hour walk · Boston
The Freedom Trail in three hours
From Boston Common to Faneuil Hall along the red line: the State House, the burying ground of Revere and Hancock, the Tea Party meeting house and the Massacre site.
The Freedom Trail is a red line set into the pavement that links sixteen sites of the American Revolution over two and a half miles. This route takes the downtown half, where the arguments of the 1760s and 1770s happened within a few streets of each other.
The route, stop by stop
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Boston Common
Set aside in 1634, the oldest public park in the country. Cows grazed here until 1830, and British troops camped here in 1775.
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Massachusetts State House
Charles Bulfinch's state house of 1798. Paul Revere's company sheathed the dome in copper; the gold leaf came later.
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Granary Burying Ground
Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock and the victims of the Boston Massacre are buried here.
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Old South Meeting House
On 16 December 1773 some five thousand people met here to argue about tea, and the meeting ended with the Boston Tea Party.
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Old State House
The Declaration of Independence was read to Boston from its balcony in 1776. A circle of cobbles below marks the site of the Boston Massacre of 1770.
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Faneuil Hall
The market hall of 1742 where colonists met to protest the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. Its weathervane is a gilded grasshopper.
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