Freedom Trail

Boston's Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. The fifteenth stop is the Bunker Hill Monument, marking the spot of the famous 1775 battle.

Boston's Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. The thirteenth stop is Old North Church, famous for its "One if by land, and two if by sea" signal.

Boston's Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. The fourteenth stop is Copp's Burying Ground, a cemetery that dates all the way back to 1659.

Boston's Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. The twelfth stop is the Paul Revere House, which the Patriot owned from 1770-1800. Today it is a museum.

Boston's Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. Faneuil Hall, dubbed the "cradle of liberty" by James Otis, was the scene of years of fiery oratory by Samuel Adams and other patriots.

Boston's Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. The site of the Boston Massacre is marked by a star in a circle of cobblestones in the pavement.

Boston's Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. The Old South Meeting House is a Puritan Church best known as the site of the rebellious meetings that led to the Boston Tea Party.

Boston's Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. The seventh stop has undergone many transformations over the years. It is best known as a major 19th century bookstore and publisher.

Boston's Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. The fourth stop is the Granary Burying Ground, founded in 1660, where three signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried.

Boston's Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. The third stop is the Park Street Church, a church with a history of involvement in activist causes such as the Abolitionist movement.

Boston's "Freedom Trail" is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. The ninth stop is the Old State House, built in 1713, making it the oldest surviving public building in Boston.

Boston's Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that visits sixteen of the city's most important historic sites. The first stop is Boston Common, Boston's public park opened in 1634 as a common area for local farmers to graze their cattle.

The Freedom Trail is a self-guided walking tour that takes you to sixteen different historically significant sites in and around Boston.

Among the sixteen historic sites on Boston's Freedom Trail walking tour are the Granary Burying Ground, the King's Chapel Burying Ground, and the Copp's Hill Burying Ground. Here are buried such notables as Paul Revere and Increase and Cotton Mather.

Boston's Freedom Trail offers tourists a view of history where it happened, with 16 historic sites that played a role in the Revolutionary War and birth of America.

The Freedom Trail in Boston is an invaluable national treasure,

Starting Memorial Day weekend, Sarah Palin will begin what she calls the "One Nation Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty & Justice For All" tour of the northeast, starting in Washington, D.C., on a chartered bus.

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Boston is an expensive city, but you can easily find free activities if you look for them. This article provides ideas for free things to do in Beantown.