Boston Trip Overview
Immerse yourself in our colonial history! On this six-hour driving tour, you will see the sights and hear the stories of Boston’s colonial past narrated by a professional historian and experienced guide with ample opportunities for taking pictures.
This is an excellent tour for seasoned historians and students alike. A meal break will be taken in Concord or elsewhere as directed.
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Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Boston, United States
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Immerse yourself in our colonial history! On this six-hour driving tour, you will see the sights and hear the stories of Boston’s colonial past narrated by a professional historian and experienced guide with ample opportunities for taking pictures.
This is an excellent tour for seasoned historians and students alike. A meal break will be taken in Concord or elsewhere as directed.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: The Paul Revere House, 19 North Sq, Boston, MA 02113-2405
The Revere House is the oldest house in Boston proper. See how Puritan architecture has lasted and influenced New England architecture since 1630.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Old North Church & Historic Site, 193 Salem St, Boston, MA 02113-1123
Hear the story behind Longfellow’s poem with the famous phrase “one if by land, two if by sea.”
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: USS Constitution, Bldg. 5, Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, MA 02129
View the oldest commissioned warship in the world and learn why she is called “Old Ironsides.”
Duration: 2 minutes
Pass By: Bunker Hill Monument, Monument Square Charlestown, Boston, MA 02129
Visit the museum, view the exhibits and learn why the events here changed American history forever.
Stop At: Faneuil Hall Marketplace, 1 Faneuil Hall Sq Quincy Market, Boston, MA 02109-1604
See our “cradle of liberty,” where the Sons of Liberty met to plan the revolution.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Old State House, 206 Washington St, Boston, MA 02109-1702
View the oldest public building in American and hear about the Boston Massacre that happened nearby.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: King’s Chapel, 58 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108-3201
See Boston’s early Anglican Church, built in 1742 to replace the original wooden church built in the 1680″s.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Granary Burying Ground, Tremont Street (between Park and School Sreets), Boston, MA 02108
View the gravesites of Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock and other important Bostonians from the Revolutionary Era
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Boston Common, 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111-1318
The Boston Common the is country’s oldest public park, established by the Puritans in 1634.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Louisburg Square, Boston, MA 02108
See this prominent Federalist neighborhood on historic Beacon Hill
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Acorn Street, Boston, MA 02108
See Boston’s most photographed street, even take a picture or two yourself.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108-4616
Hear about the meetings that led up to the Boston Tea Party at this historic meeting house.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, 306 Congress St, Boston, MA 02210-1027
See the replica ships in the harbor representing those from the Boston Tea Party.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Hancock-Clarke House, 36 Hancock St, Lexington, MA 02420-3432
See where Paul Revere woke Sam Adams and John Hancock to warn them the British might be looking for them to hang them for treason.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Buckman Tavern, 1 Bedford St, Lexington, MA 02420-4339
See where the Lexington Militia awaited the arrival of British troops before the skirmish on Lexington Green the next morning.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Lexington Green, Bedford St, Lexington, MA 02420-4403
See the site and hear the story of the skirmish where many consider the birth of the Second Amendment to have taken place.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: The Old North Bridge, 174 Liberty St Minuteman National Historical Park, Concord, MA 01742-1705
Travel through the national park, hearing the story of the fateful night in 1775 where shots were first fired by patriots at the British. View the eight-minute video presentation in the visitors center and and related exhibits.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, 399 Lexington Rd, Concord, MA 01742-3712
See where Alcott and her sisters were raised and where she wrote ‘Little Women.”
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Ralph Waldo Emerson House, 28 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA 01742-3700
See the home of one of America’s most influential and beloved poets and philosophers.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Walden Pond State Reservation, 915 Walden St 28 Maplewood St Watertown, Concord, MA 01742-4511
See the pond that captured the imagination of Henry David Thoreau and led to his most famous and important written work.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Longfellow House Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138-3407
See the home where George Washington lived when he commanded the Continental Army. Later it became the home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of America’s most esteemed poets.
Duration: 5 minutes
