MEMOGRAPHER | Travel Photo Journal

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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