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For everything you need to know about TD Garden (seeing a game, getting tickets, etc.) check out Itinerant Fan’s TD Garden guide.We specialise in treks involving historic escape routes that cross borders Note: right nearby is the TD Garden, one of Boston’s premiere sports arenas. Which will you choose? For more information on the North End, check out our Definitive North End guide here ! We are a house divided on this one– Tegan prefers Modern, Alex prefers Mike’s. The North End contains some of Boston’s oldest surviving architecture, as well as to-die-for Italian fare, from pizza (we recommend Regina’s) to lasagna (we recommend the lunch lasagna at Antico Forno) to home-made pasta (we recommend the squid ink pasta at Monica’s or Giacomo’s legendary pasta, if you’re willing to wait in line.) Of course, no trip to the North End is complete without staking your claim in the epic cannoli rivalry of Mike’s Pastry versus Modern Pastry. Smith.Īs you walk around the Paul Revere House and Old North Church, note that you will definitely want to spend some time in the North End, either at the end of the Trail on your way back, or taking a little detour while you’re here. Home of abolitionist and 3-term state representative John J.
Stop 10: John Smith House, 86 Pinckney Street. Stop 9: Smith Court Residences, 5, 7, 7A, 4 and 2 Smith Courtĭespite being private homes and not open for touring, the homes exemplify those built by Black residents in the early 1800s. Originally opened as a school for white children only, the Phillips School became one of the first integrated schools in the state when Massachusetts integrated schools in 1855. Stop 8: Phillips School, corner of Pinckney & Anderson Street. Middleton served as the commander of one of two all-Black units in the American Revolution, and was also an accomplished violinist and founder of the African Benevolent Society. Stop 7: George Middleton House, 5 Pinckney Street. Fun fact: Harriet Beecher Stowe interviewed them when researching for her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Stop 6: Lewis and Harriet Hayden House, 66 Phillips StreetĪ famed stop on the Underground Railroad, the Hayden house was home to Lewis and Harriet, who escaped slavery in Kentucky and came to Boston. Coburn in the early 1800s, still a private residence today. Stop 5: John Coburn House, 2 Phillips Street. Stop 4: Charles Street Meeting House, 70 Charles Street. Known colloquially as “Black Faneuil Hall,” this is the oldest Black church in the country, and the site of many speeches by Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists. Stop 3: African Meeting House, 8 Smith Court. Now home to the Museum of African American History - really worth a visit. Stop 2: Abiel Smith School, 46 Joy Street. Located across the street from the State House (see Stop 2 on the Freedom Trail above), there is a monument depicting the Black soldiers who fought for the Union, the subject of the film Glory, as they marched down Beacon Street after the end of the war. Stop 1: Monument to the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. The Black Heritage Trail tells their stories. In the years after slavery was outlawed, a large community of former slaves settled in the Beacon Hill area, creating meeting houses, schools, and other institutions. to ban slavery in 1783, Massachusetts, and Boston in particular, continue to struggle with a past and present of entrenched and systemic racism and injustice. 
Must-see sites include: the 1806 African Meeting House (the oldest Black church in the country) the Abiel Smith School, now the Museum of African American History and the Lewis and Harriet Hayden House, a stop on the Underground Railroad.ĭespite the fact that it was the first state in the U.S. The path stops at several sites important to Black history in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. We strongly recommend taking the time to explore the Black Heritage Trail prior to continuing on your Freedom Trail journey.
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