The Complete Guide To Boston S Freedom Trail

A guide to touring the Freedom Trail in Boston, with explanatory material for the 'official' Freedom Trail stops, and includes suggestions for alternatives to touring the entire trail. Additional material and languages are available via smartphone apps and QR codes.

Updated for 2014 - FREE COMPANION APP - FREE STREAMING NARRATION! Now includes Boston Harbor Islands - great day trip for all ages! FREE COMPANION APP for iPhone and Android w/MULTILINGUAL Option - Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, & Japanese! FREE STREAMING NARRATION w/web access - a tour guide in your pocket! Now with information on Harvard Sq., Lexington-Concord, & Adams NHP Updated history sections with Native Americans & early explorers Includes free Web-Updates with happenings, budget tips, maps & more Google Auto-Translate to Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese and Others with embedded QR-Codes! Whether you are a first time visitor or you've lived in Boston for years, the Freedom Trail Boston Ultimate Tour & History Guide provides everything to make your visit to The Freedom Trail and Historic Boston a smashing success. Read all important chapters in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean and other languages via exclusive links to web-based auto-translation features. Use it to plan, brush up on background information, or as a personal, interactive, multi-lingual tour guide when walking The Freedom Trail. It covers all 16 "official" Freedom Trail Stops as well as over 50 other "unofficial" landmarks. Also includes custom side-trips to Harvard Sq., Lexington, Concord & Adams National Historical Park. The Guide features over 100 photos and illustrations, as well as access to interactive maps, free smartphone apps, video, and other information. There are detailed descriptions of the important related events including the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's Ride, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and the Battle of Bunker Hill. There are tips for the best free tours, discounted admissions, where to eat, transportation and parking advice, and even where to find the best lobster specials. The Freedom Trail can be a great bargain, the Guide shows you how. Whether traveling alone or with small children, learn how to make the most of your visit. Find out what to see if you only have an hour. Or, plan the best 1/2, full or even two day visit. Don't miss out on what would be most interesting for you. The impact Boston had on the events and thinking that led to the American Revolution was extraordinary. The Guide gives you everything you need to bring The Freedom Trail to life.

A Moving and Informative Guidebook and Keepsake Worthy of Coffee Table Display! Through lyrical paragraphs and poignant black and white images, The Boston Freedom Trail reveals the essence of each site along the Freedom Trail, thereby allowing the reader to be moved and to connect more intimately with the splendor of liberty itself. Said to be the soul of the city, Boston’s Freedom Trail embodies the remarkable and courageous spirit of America’s unyielding quest for Independence and makes Boston a popular and endearing tourist destination. Beginning within the elegantly manicured grounds of Boston’s Common, this trail takes an estimated twenty million visitors a year on a fascinating 2.5-mile walk through its historic sites—sites enveloped within the city itself, and dotted with cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels, and commerce. In this book, each of these sites, and each name associated with America’s independence, whispers endless stories and inspires great dreams. This city’s captivating past—and that of the entire American experience—can be discovered on each page, making it an absorbing and everlasting book, one dedicated to the absolute beauty and the luminous tradition of freedom.

A thorough yet concise walking guide to one of America's most important historic destinations Relive the birth of America along Boston's historic two-and-a-half-mile Freedom Trail with this guide to twenty-six legendary landmarks—including the site of the Boston Massacre and the Bunker Hill Monument. This new edition is fully updated to include the most current information on the sites, including admission fees, hours of operation, and more. It also features a fresh cover treatment and a new, travel-friendly trim size. Put on your walking shoes and visit: - Faneuil Hall, where the citizens of Boston voted their “opposition to Tyrants and their Minions” - Paul Revere's house, the only seventeenth-century wooden dwelling still standing in any major American city - The Old South Meeting House, where Sam Adams's December 16, 1773 oration led to the Boston Tea Party - The Old State House, the site of Boston's first public reading of the Declaration of Independence

Discover one of America's most historic cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning Boston's 400-year history, and then visit the places where history happened on walking tours of the city's historic neighborhoods. Boston expert Charles Bahne reveals some of the city's most shocking moments, from a murder mystery on the Harvard campus to the mistake that sent two million gallons of molasses pouring down Commerce Street. Other essays explore major historic events including the Boston Tea Party and the ride of Paul Revere to the establishment of the Red Sox and Fenway Park. The book also contains stories about John Hancock, Charles Bulfinch, Fredrick Law Olmsted, Alexander Graham Bell, Isabella Stewart Gardner, the Kennedys, and more.