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Historic Sites in Boston
Explore 10 historic places in Boston, from museums and landmarks to destinations connected with defining events and eras in American history.
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Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
Boston, MA
An immersive waterfront museum uses costumed interpreters, replica ships, interactive exhibits, and an original tea chest to recreate the Boston Tea Party.
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Faneuil Hall
Boston, MA
Boston’s historic market and meeting hall has served for nearly three centuries as a stage for debates over liberty, abolition, suffrage, labor, and civic life.
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Boston Fire Museum
Boston, MA
A free museum inside an 1891 firehouse preserves antique apparatus, alarms, artifacts, and stories from Boston’s pioneering professional fire department.
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Boston Massacre Site
Boston, MA
A circular pavement marker outside the Old State House identifies the place where British soldiers killed five colonists on March 5, 1770.
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Boston, MA
An I. M. Pei-designed presidential library on Boston Harbor that brings John F. Kennedy’s life, administration, and enduring civic legacy into vivid focus.
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Old North Church & Historic Site
Boston, MA
Boston's oldest surviving church building, renowned for the two lanterns displayed from its steeple on the eve of the American Revolution.
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Old South Meeting House
Boston, MA
The 1729 meeting house where thousands debated British taxation before the gathering spilled into the streets and became the Boston Tea Party.
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Old State House
Boston, MA
Boston’s 1713 seat of royal government, overlooking the Boston Massacre site and the balcony where independence was proclaimed to the city.
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Paul Revere House
Boston, MA
The compact 17th-century North End home where Paul Revere lived during the years surrounding his famous revolutionary ride.
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USS Constitution
Boston, MA
Board the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat and encounter the living naval history of “Old Ironsides” with its active-duty U.S. Navy crew.
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Historical Events
1773
Boston Tea Party
Revolutionary War
Boston colonists destroyed 342 chests of East India Company tea in December 1773, provoking punitive British legislation that deepened intercolonial resistance and accelerated the crisis leading to revolution.
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1775
Battles of Lexington & Concord
Revolutionary War
British regulars and Massachusetts militia fought at Lexington, Concord, and along the Battle Road on April 19, 1775, beginning open warfare in the American Revolution.
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