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The steeple of the Old North Church where Robert Newman placed the signal lanterns on the eve of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
One of many plaques honouring those who fought in the American Revolution hung around Paul Revere Mall. Boston, May 19, 2008
Kings Chapel and Burying Ground - Built in 1686 on land ordered seized by England's King James II. People that have attended the church were George Washington, Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin. The burying ground is the final resting place for John Winthrop (the first elected governor of Massachusetts Colony) and Mary Chilton (the first woman to step off of the Mayflower).
Joseph Hooker (November 13, 1814 – October 31, 1879) was a career United States Army officer, fought in the Mexican-American War, and was a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
To experience the Freedom Trail, an assortment of Bostonian historical sites, one follows a red line (literally, as it is either painted or laid in brick in front of you).
The name sounds a lot more like something out of the Hobbit than stuffy wig-wearing Founding Father History.
Fleet St...where Sweeney Todd lives and the Stanford singers sing.
The church is St. Stephen's, just like the Grateful Dead song.
The Old Corner Book Store. Nathaniel Hawthorne edited the Scarlet Letter right here and it was the center of the literary community. (Now a diamond store and the big irony is that there is a HUGE Barnes and Noble across the street)