Freedom Trail-20' (Boston South) (42.3631530, -71.0547732)
Freedom Trail National Park Visitor Center-26' (Boston South) (42.3584308, 71.0572732)
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Sherri and I walked the Freedom Trail. Even though it is only 2.5 to 3 miles long, it took us two days. We have a tendency to stop and read and visit each place of interest. We did it as a self guided tour, but you can do it as a guided tour as well, with guides in costume. Both at the Faneuli Hall and at Bunker Hill there are NPS interpretive rangers who will walk a group through several points in the area-highly suggest you make use of them.
The Freedom Trail is a 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) path through downtown Boston, Massachusetts, that passes by 16 locations significant to the history of the United States. Marked largely with brick, it winds between Boston Common to the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown. Stops along the trail include simple explanatory ground markers, graveyards, notable churches and buildings, and a historic naval frigate. While most of the sites are free or suggest donations, the Old South Meeting House, the Old State House, and the Paul Revere House charge admission. The Freedom Trail is overseen by the City of Boston's Freedom Trail Commission[1] and is supported in part by grants from various nonprofits and foundations, private philanthropy, and Boston National Historical Park. From Wikipedia
From GNIS:
- Freedom Trail
- The trail is recognized as a National Recreation Trail. It is a 3 mi tour of 16 historically important sites and structures in downtown Boston and Charlestown beginning at the Boston Common and ending at the Bunker Hill Monument.
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service lists, brochures and handbooks. Year of publication and name of brochure or handbook follow (if known): Boston
- Also called Chemin de la Liberte : Boston: The Official Guidebook. Boston, Massachusetts: Parsons, Friedman, and Central, Inc., 1996
- Freedom Trail National Park Visitor Center: Bahne, Charles. The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail. Second Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Newtowne Publishing, 1993. p23
Trips:
- October 17, 2018-First half of the Freedom Trail
- October 20, 2018-Finish Freedom Trail
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