Boston, Massachusetts has more sites related to the American Revolution and America’s fight for independence than any other city. The Freedom Trail is the city’s most popular tourist attraction. It’s a 2.5-mile (4 km) route that leads to the 16 historically significant sites. The cool thing – you can’t get lost! the entire route is marked by a red line that is painted or bricked into the sidewalk. The Freedom Trail begins in Boston Common and ends in Charlestown at the Bunker Hill Monument.

Official Freedom Trail sites

  • Boston Common
  • Massachusetts State House
  • Park Street Church
  • Granary Burying Ground
  • King’s Chapel
  • King’s Chapel Burying Ground
  • Benjamin Franklin statue and former site of Boston Latin School
  • Old Corner Bookstore
  • Old South Meeting House
  • Old State House
  • Site of the Boston Massacre
  • Faneuil Hall
  • Paul Revere House
  • Old North Church
  • Copp’s Hill Burying Ground
  • Bunker Hill Monument
  • USS Constitution

*** Just FYI, Ye Olde Union Oyster House is amongst the oldest restaurants in the United States of America. The building was listed as a National Historic Landmark on May 27, 2003. The building itself was built most likely in 1704. Before it became a restaurant, Hopestill Capen’s dress goods business occupied the property. In 1771 printer Isaiah Thomas published his newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, from the second floor. The restaurant originally opened as the Atwood & Bacon Oyster House on August 3, 1826. The Union Oyster House has a number of famous people in history as diners, including the Kennedy clan and Daniel Webster. In 1796 Louis Philippe, King of France from 1830 to 1848, lived in exile on the second floor. America’s first waitress, Rose Carey, worked there starting in the 1920s.

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Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston's Freedom Trail

Photo Walk on Boston’s Freedom Trail