MASS. I ^\%/r*>.^ ' ooc. col THE * UMASS/AMHERST * CITY OF 312Dbb DE?fi US&7 b GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS COLLECTION BEGINNINGS BOSTON MAR : ] 1933 Tour No. 5 University of Massachusptts Depository Copy More than a city of the past, Boston is alive with the present and the future. Boston is beginnings. Our country began here with patriots like Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock . whose voices still echo in Faneuil Hall. But Boston began many things: anaesthesia, telephone communications, telegraph, radio, printing, canning foods, laser beam research, space technology. Boston is a catalyst in education, arts, finance, medicine, research, industry and govern- ment. Quaint sidewalk cafes and glass- curtained skyscrapers live together. Broad Boston "a's" meld with accents from all over the world in this international mecca of the aspiring in the theatre, music and painting. Your tour of Boston spans decades and centuries. You look into the future at the Museum of Science and Hayden Planetarium. The Freedom Trail takes you to the begin- nings of America and the first incidents of the Revolutionary War. Still, Boston is not all history. It is Swan Boats for children, Boston Pops outdoor concerts for summer fun, and the Red Sox, Bruins and Celtics for every- body. And it is a city of all seasons. A city of fulfillment for whatever you choose. 7 Harbor LOOP* 1 fywil ffal/ 'l^Pmll&yetef/otfse- 2 QuiHcy Mdttef- 3 BostonMdssdc&Sfe /& OldNorthChink- 4 OldSfrfeffovse & CbppsHillBuryiMfgrfuna' 6 (krtj&m Fr^ikl& Birihpbce 7 a%CornerBookSim 3 SlfaetfBwjdwnFtfrtklirL. 2P MS&CoMS/ifafroH-. J? SfeofiheFigtR4blic6chc0/ 21 dunherHih'fbvi/iotu V QfcmifButfik? fauna' 22. BunkerHillMpnuwmr- 23 NewOffendAjMriuui- Pond 12 Boston Cofvwott^ 2f MonT&fhrfyphipaw'Museunt- 13 ^Ptefe House Hj BtiyirtytjMHna' 2& Bosb/j Muslim'oftfifteAtfr 2J IsM/dSfemtrt^wrMu&ii^ 23 IheChi/ohnsMUseunc^ 2$ Ch//ct^Za>hFfafk//H?%rk 30 IbeAMob/Aricretunt- FrSnkliH fbrk This tour of famous museums and historic 5. -6. OLD SOUTH 11. PARK STREET CHURCH shrines may be divided into several days. MEETING HOUSE AND Peter Banner's masterpiece -The Park There are frequent bus tours from Copley BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S Street Church -built in 1809. described Square by Gray Line Tours and Copley Tours. BIRTHPLACE by Henry James as "the most interesting Harbor sightseeing boats leave Rowes Wharf The Old South Meeting House, where mass of brick and mortar in America". motels offer and Long Wharf. Hotels and Samuel Adams acted as Deacon and Town William Lloyd Garrison's first anti-slavery special weekend package rates. Clerk, was both a church and a town meeting address ( 1 829) and the first public singing of THE FREEDOM TRAIL house. Any Boston Town Meeting that was "America" (1831), both took place here on Hall was adjourned to the July 4th. This site has long been known as A tour of famous American Historic too big for Faneuil Old South. The most famous such meeting "Brimstone Corner", not because of the fiery Shrines starts at the City Hall Orientation triggered the Tea Party. The building sermons of its early ministers, but because Center in Government Center. Convenient Boston set in 1877 for historical, memorial, brimstone for gunpowder was stored in the parking will be found in nearby garages and was aside educational and religious uses. Around the cellar during the War of 1812. Open: Mon. - parking lots. Freedom Trail busses leave plaque marks the site of Sat., 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday services at 10:30 from the Visitor Information Booth on corner on Milk St., a the birthplace of Benjamin Franklin. Open: a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Free. Tremont St., Boston Common. The Freedom Oct. 1 - May 31, Mon. - Sat., 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Trail tour is divided into two figure-eight 12. BOSTON COMMON June 1 - Sept. 30, Mon. - Fri., 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; loops. This is part of the original tract of land Sat. and holidays, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Closed: that was set aside by Governor Winthrop as a LOOP No. 1 from CITY HALL Sun., Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's common grazing ground for cattle and a Day. Admission. 1. FANEUIL HALL military training field. Both British and Boston Town Meetings in Faneuil Hall 7. OLD CORNER BOOK STORE Massachusetts troops were mustered here and were so active John Adams named it "The The Thomas Crease House was built in it is still used as a drill ground. Soap box Cradle of Liberty". Peter Faneuil gave this 1712, or shortly after, on the site of the orators uphold the right of free speech with hall to Boston in 1742. Charles Bulfinch home of Anne Hutchinson. In the 19th harangues on political, social and economic enlarged it in 1806. Respecting Faneuil's Century, this was the site of the first publish- issues. wishes. Faneuil Hall has always had a market ing house of Ticknor and Fields, and then of 13. on the ground floor and a free market for the Old Corner Book Store. The authors who STATE HOUSE The "New"State House was built in 1795 ideas on the floor above. The top floor houses made Boston "the Athens of America" met by Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- here. To the store came Longfellow, Emerson, Capitol Building in Washington, on land pany. Open: Mon. - Fri.. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sat., Hawthorne, Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe. - - - bought from John Hancock. Samuel Adams 9 a.m. 1 2 Noon; Sun.. 1 5 p.m. Museum Whittier and Julia Ward Howe. Open: Mon. laid the cornerstone. In its Archives Museum open: Mon. - Fri.. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Fri.. 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sat. - Sun., 10 a.m. - 6 are the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay p.m. Free. 2. QUINCY MARKET Company of 1628, the Constitution of 1780 An outstanding example of Greek Revival 8 STATUE OF (the oldest written constitution still in effect) architecture, a National Historic Site, designed BENJAMIN FRANKLIN and other famous records, among them in 1825 Alexander Parris and Solomon Bradford's History of Plimoth Plantation. Do by On the lawn of the reconstructed Old City Willard, major proponents of the Greek not fail to see the HaJl of Flags and the manu- Hall is the first portrait statue erected in in England architecture. scripts and displays in the State Library. Revival New Boston (1856) of Benjamin Franklin by Open: Every day. Guided tours by the Doric Richard S. 3. BOSTON MASSACRE SITE Greenough. The bronze tablets on Dames every half-hour from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. the next intersection the the pedestal depict the many facets and At below Old Free. highlights in the life this gifted State House, a ring of cobblestones marks of Bostonian. where, He is shown operating a printing press, signing ORANGE LINE on Mar. 5, 1770, a jeering Boston £ BLUE UNE the Declaration of Independence, signing the crowd clashed with a British guard of nine Treaty of Peace with France, and experiment- soldiers. The colonists shouted resentment ing with lightning. The sculptor, in a personal against the quartering of troops in the town. letter, said that he found one side of Frank- They hurled stones and debris at the Redcoats lin's face to be gay and smiling, while the who struck back by firing into the mob. other was that of a sober, sedate statesman. killing five men. Among them was Crispus The observer may be able to detect this Attucks, the first Black victim to die for difference in the statue. America's freedom. Eleven days earlier, young Christopher Snider, had been shot by a 9. SITE OF THE FIRST PUBLIC customs official. Thus came the first blood- SCHOOL shed of the growing Revolution. Near the present City Hall is the site 4. OLD STATE HOUSE of the original Boston Public Latin School, the first public school in the countr> . Here "the child Independence was born" Many famous men of the past occupied its hard according to John Adams, our second Presi- benches. Rev. Cotton Mather. Ralph Waldo dent. Built in 1713. it was the seat of the Emerson. Samuel colonial government and the center of activity Adams. John Hancock. Benjamin Franklin and other signers of the for such patriots as James Otis. John Han- 14. - 15. KING'S CHAPEL AND Declaration of Independence. cock. Samuel and John Adams. It was known BURYING GROUND as the Town House until Massachusetts King's Chapel, the first Episcopal Church became a state. Just outside, the Boston 10. GRANARY BURYING GROUND in Boston -- became, after the Revolution, the Massacre occurred. The Declaration of Inde- Before the Park Street Church was built, first Unitarian Church in America. The church pendence was first read in Boston from the the site was occupied by the town granary, was organized here in 1686. The present east balcony, and President Washington here which gave its name to the cemetery. Here are building was completed in 1754. In colonial reviewed a parade in his honor in 1789. It the graves of three signers of the Declaration days, this church was a royal favorite. Queen was here. too. that John Hancock served of Independence: John Hancock, Robert Anne gave its red cushions and vestments, and as first governor of the Commonwealth. Treat Paine and Samuel Adams; many govern- George III gave its communion plate. The Open: Mon. - Sat.. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Closed: ors; Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, Peter Fan- burying ground, sheltering Governor Winthrop Thanksgiving. Christmas. New Year's Day.