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The Black Heritage Trail Archived July 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine; Boston National Historic Park; The Boston Harbor Walk; The Freedom Trail – Boy Scouts of America pamphlet; 1798 Map of Boston; Clough's 1798 Atlas of Boston (circa 1900) 1640 Map of Boston; History of the Freedom Trail; PDF Map of the Freedom Trail; Mapping Boston History
The Boston National Historical Park is an association of sites that showcase Boston's role in the American Revolution and other parts of history. It was designated a national park on October 1, 1974. Seven of the eight sites are connected by the Freedom Trail, a walking tour of downtown Boston.
Boston newspapers first pitched plans for a proto-Freedom Trail in the 1930s. But the idea didn’t catch on until after World War II. By that point, most of the city’s once-massive textile ...
The National Park Service wrote: The historic buildings along today's Black Heritage Trail ® were the homes, businesses, schools and churches of a thriving black community that organized, from the nation's earliest years, to sustain those who faced local discrimination and national slavery, struggling toward the equality and freedom promised in America's documents of national liberty.
"Old North and Black Freedom" "John Eliot and the Conversion of Native Peoples in Boston's North End" "Paul Revere's Ride and the Mark of Urban Slavery" "People of Color as Children and Elders in 18th and 19th Century Boston" See the link at the bottom of the page for more information.
It is one of the landmarks on Boston's Freedom Trail and is the oldest surviving public building in Boston. It now serves as a history museum that was operated by the Bostonian Society through 2019. On January 1, 2020, the Bostonian Society merged with the Old South Association in Boston to form Revolutionary Spaces. [5]
The Paul Revere House, built c.1680, was the colonial home of American Patriot and Founding Father Paul Revere during the time of the American Revolution. A National Historic Landmark since 1961, it is located at 19 North Square , Boston , Massachusetts , in the city's North End , and is now operated as a nonprofit museum by the Paul Revere ...
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