Boston's Freedom Trail, 6th; A Souvenir Guide

by Illustrations by Jack Frost; text by Robert Booth; revised by Erica Bollerud

• ISBN13: 9780762726653
• ISBN10: 0762726652
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Globe Pequot

Summary

There's no better way to relive the birth of our nation than by walking along the 2 1/2 mile Boston's Freedom Trail. Readers can put on their walking shoes and use this illustrated guide as a companion as they follow Boston's redbrick trail past the site of the Boston Massacre, the Bunker Hill Monument, and 24 other historic landmarks. Each entry in this souvenir guide includes information about admission fees, wheelchair accessibility, telephone numbers, and websites.

Author Biography

Erica Bollerud spent several years as a travel editor at Yankee Publishing, Inc., contributing to Yankee magazine, Yankee Magazine's Travel Guide to New England, and NewEngland.com. She also updated the fourth edition of Historic Walks in Old Boston. She lives in Medford, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Foreword	iv
Freedom Trail Sites and Structures	v
Visitor Information	viii
Boston Common	1	(4)
Site of the Liberty Tree	5	(2)
State House	7	(4)
Site of John Hancock's House	11	(1)
The Beacon	12	(2)
Park Street Church	14	(4)
Old Granary	18	(3)
King's Chapel	21	(3)
King's Chapel Burying Ground	24	(1)
Benjamin Franklin's Statue	25	(2)
The Old Corner Bookstore	27	(2)
Site of Franklin's Print Shop	29	(2)
Old South Meeting House	31	(6)
Site of Benjamin Franklin's Birthplace	37	(1)
Old State House	37	(5)
Site of the Boston Massacre	42	(3)
Faneuil Hall	45	(3)
Quincy Market	48	(2)
The Tea Party Ship	50	(2)
Paul Revere's House	52	(4)
Saint Stephen's Church	56	(3)
Paul Revere Mall	59	(2)
Old North Church	61	(8)
Copp's Hill	69	(2)
USS Constitution	71	(5)
Bunker Hill	76	(5)
Index	81