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| BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL | |
| Boston's famous landmarks reflect the important part the city played in the history of the United States. This wonderful city will come alive, as you explore the Freedom Trail, including a visit to the Old North Church. You will continue your Boston tour with visits to the Back Bay, Public Gardens, Beacon Hill, and Old Ironsides, the oldest ship in the U.S. Navy. | |
| CAMBRIDGE | |
| Explore Cambridge, Boston's sister city across the Charles River. Cambridge is a preeminent center of learning, and we will tour Harvard University, the oldest university in the country. In and around the historic "Yard", are buildings representing the history of architecture in America. We will also see MIT, founded as a school where students could learn "exactly and thoroughly the fundamental principles of positive science with application to the industrial arts". Cambridge was also the home of Longfellow, and we will pass his home, as we drive along Brattle Street, known during the Revolution as "Tory Row" for the mansions belonging to the Loyalists. | |
| LEXINGTON AND CONCORD | |
| Follow Paul Revere's famous route, as he made his way from Boston to Lexington and Concord to warn the citizens that the British were coming. We will stop at the Battle Green in Lexington, where the first battle of the American Revolution took place. We will then follow the trail of the "minuteman" to Concord where "they fired the shot heard round the world". A stop at the Minuteman National Park, and the Old North Bridge will be included. Concord was also known as a literary center, with residents such as Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. We will pass some of their homes, as well as the home of Ephraim Bull, founder of the Concord grape. | |
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