10 min
Meet your guide at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in the center of Boston Common, steps from the Boston Common Visitors Center at 139 Tremont Street (02108). Look for a white granite column topped by a female figure holding a flag; four bronze statues surround the base of the central column.
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Oldest public land in the Americas and Boston's communal grazing pasture (1634)
10 min
Narrow cobblestone alleyways wind throughout historic Beacon Hill
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Elegant neighborhood square from elite world of 19th-century "Boston Brahmins"
10 min
Built as a whites-only school in 1824, but among the first schools to integrate in Boston by 1855
10 min
Home of leading abolitionist, state legislator, and former barber
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Primary thoroughfare of Beacon Hill, lined with local shops and restaurants
15 min
Historic meeting house (1807) and site of contentious debate over racial integration
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Home of African-American community activist and abolitionist
15 min
Underground Railroad safe house owned by the Haydens, staunch abolitionists who were formerly enslaved
10 min
1796 residence of Harrison Gray Otis, Boston mayor and nephew of revolutionary James Otis, Jr.
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Historic 1806 church designed by noted architect Asher Benjamin
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Home of outspoken abolitionist and U.S. Senator beaten unconscious in the Capitol over the issue of slavery in 1856.
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Homes of several African-American abolitionists, including historian William Cooper Nell
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Founded in 1835 as segregated school for Boston's African-American children
Cultural center of Boston's African-American community and oldest extant black church building in the U.S. (1806)
10 min
Oldest extant house in Beacon Hill (1787) was home to African-American Revolutionary War veteran
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Massachusetts state capitol and "Hub of the Solar System" (1798)
15 min
Our tour concludes beside the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial opposite 24 Beacon Street.
