Boston: Underground Railroad History Tour of Beacon Hill

• [Departure] 10:30, meet up at Soldiers & Sailors Monument, Boston Common, Boston, MA. The tour gathers on Boston Common at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument, just behind the address 139 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02108..Please arrive at the location 15 mins before the departure time
• [Attraction/experience] Boston Common, Oldest public land in the Americas and Boston's communal grazing pasture (1634)
• [Attraction/experience] Acorn Street, Narrow cobblestone alleyways wind throughout historic Beacon Hill
• [Attraction/experience] Louisburg Square, Elegant neighborhood square from elite world of 19th-century "Boston Brahmins"
• [Attraction/experience] Phillips School, Built as a whites-only school in 1824, but among the first schools to integrate in Boston by 1855
• [Attraction/experience] John J Smith House, Home of leading abolitionist, state legislator, and former barber
• [Attraction/experience] Charles Street Meeting House, Historic meeting house (1807) and site of contentious debate over racial integration
• [Attraction/experience] John Coburn House, Home of African-American community activist and abolitionist
• [Attraction/experience] Lewis & Harriet Hayden House, Underground Railroad safe house owned by the Haydens, staunch abolitionists who were formerly enslaved
• [Attraction/experience] Otis House, 1796 residence of Harrison Gray Otis, Boston mayor and nephew of revolutionary James Otis, Jr.
• [Attraction/experience] Old West Church, Historic 1806 church designed by noted architect Asher Benjamin
• [Attraction/experience] Charles Sumner House, Home of outspoken abolitionist and U.S. Senator beaten unconscious in the Capitol over the issue of slavery in 1856.
• [Attraction/experience] Smith Court Residences, Homes of several African-American abolitionists, including historian William Cooper Nell
• [Attraction/experience] Abiel Smith School, Founded in 1835 as segregated school for Boston's African-American children
• [Attraction/experience] African Meeting House, Cultural center of Boston's African-American community and oldest extant black church building in the U.S. (1806)
• [Attraction/experience] George Middleton House, Oldest extant house in Beacon Hill (1787) was home to African-American Revolutionary War veteran
• [Attraction/experience] Massachusetts State House, Massachusetts state capitol and "Hub of the Solar System" (1798)
• [Return] 13:00, at Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, Our tour concludes beside the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial opposite 24 Beacon Street.

Eligibility

• Free for children aged 0-5

Additional information

• This tour involves a considerable amount of walking and stairs. Please make sure you are fit enough to participate

Accessibility

• This activity is not stroller and wheelchair-accessible