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Boston's FREEDOM TRAIL & HARVARD CAMPUS - Combo - GPS Self-Guided Audio Walk
4 h
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Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Boston Common, 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111-1318
Boston Common founded in 1634 spans nearly 50 acres. When the Puritans arrived at Boston in 1630, they found a settler named William Black and then things changed. Book the tour to learn more
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, Corner of Beacon Street & Park Street, Boston, MA 02108
The Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, located across Beacon Street from the State House, serves as a memorial to the some of the first African Americans to fight in the Revolutionary War. Book the tour to learn more about this revolutionary war.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Park Street Church, One Park Street, Boston, MA 02108-4899
The 217-foot steeple of this church was once the first landmark travelers saw when approaching Boston. Book the tour to know its history and architecture.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Granary Burying Ground, Tremont Street (between Park and School Sreets), Boston, MA 02108
Granary Burying Ground was established in the 1660s. It was named for an adjacent granary located where Park Street church is today. So who was buried here?? Book the tour to learn more.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: King's Chapel, 58 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108-3201
King’s Chapel, the first Anglican Church in Boston, was founded in 1686 and houses the oldest American pulpit in continuous use. Book the tour to know why no resident would sell land for a church, which eventually had to be built on a public burying ground.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Statue of Benjamin Franklin, School St. at City Hall Ave, Boston, MA
Boston Latin School is the oldest public school in the 13 colonies. Boston Latin was founded in 1635 and what became the aptly named School Street, where it existed for about a century before it was torn down. Book the tour to learn more..
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Boston Irish Famine Memorial, Washington St., Boston, MA
Funded by a trust led by Boston businessman Thomas Flatley, the Irish park was opened in 1998. Book the tour to learn why this memorial has received contrasting reviews and has since been called "the most mocked and reviled public sculpture in Boston"?
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108-4616
Old South Meeting House is a Puritan place of worship that was built in 1729 and today functions as a museum. It was one of the largest buildings in Boston at that time. Book the tour to learn more about the house’s hour of fame in the winter of 1773.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Old Corner Book Store, 283 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108, USA
The Old Corner Bookstore, across the street where you are, is the oldest commercial building in Boston. It was built in 1718 as a pharmacy or apothecary shop. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Tennyson, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and many others gathered here to discuss their works and exchange literary gossip at what they called The Saturday Club. Book the tour to learn more.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Boston Massacre Site, 206 Washington St, Boston, MA 02109-1702
The Boston Massacre took place in front of the balcony, and the site is now marked by a cobblestone circle in the square. Allow us to set the scene…book the tour to learn more.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Faneuil Hall Marketplace, 1 Faneuil Hall Sq Quincy Market, Boston, MA 02109-1604
Faneuil Hall has been around since 1742 and is known as the Cradle of Liberty. Faneuil Hall was the scene of the most stirring public meetings on the eve of the American Revolution with the great Patriot orators of the day sounding from its platform. Book the tour to learn more.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: New England Holocaust Memorial, Between Congress and Union Streets, Boston, MA 02109
On the way to the next stop on the Freedom Trail, you will see the New England Holocaust Memorial on the left. While not a typical Freedom Trail stop, it is an important and interesting monument. Book the tour to learn more....
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Haymarket, Blackstone St, Boston, MA
Also not one of the designated Freedom trail stops the Haymarket. It is an open-air market where vendors sell fruits, vegetables, and seafood at very low prices.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Rose Kennedy Greenway, JFK Surface Road, Boston, MA 02111
Another non-Freedom trail stop on the way is The Rose Kennedy Greenway. It is a linear park that stretches over several downtown Boston neighborhoods. Book the tour to learn more..
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: The Paul Revere House, 19 North Sq, Boston, MA 02113-2405
Paul Revere's home. Yes! It still stands today. It was constructed around 1680 and he purchased it in 1770. Book the tour to learn about its history and interesting facts..
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Old North Church & Historic Site, 193 Salem St, Boston, MA 02113-1123
This is Christ Church, but it is more popularly known as Old North Church. Book the tour to learn why It is most famous for being the site of Paul Revere's two lantern signal on the eve of the American Revolution?
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Corner of Snow Hill and Hull Streets, Boston, MA 02118
Copp's Hill burying ground is in the north end. Thousands of people are entombed here. Book the tour to know why it was a place for the less affluent including craftsmen, mechanics, and artisans?
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: USS Constitution Museum, Bldg 22 Charlestown Navy Yard Charlestown, Boston, MA 02129
The USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship in American history. It was first launched in 1797. Book the tour to learn why it famously earned the nickname of Old Ironsides during the War of 1812?
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Bunker Hill Monument, Monument Square, Boston, MA 02129
The Bunker Hill Monument was erected to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill, which was among the first major battles between British and Patriot forces in the American Revolutionary War. The monument is not on Bunker Hill, but instead on Breed's Hill, where most of the fighting in the misnamed Battle of Bunker Hill actually took place. Book the tour to learn why The Monument Association, which had purchased the battlefield site, was forced to sell off all but the hill's summit in order to complete the monument.?
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Johnston Gate, 1465-1483 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
The Johnston Gate is one of the several entrances to Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is the first gate ever built at Harvard and by far the most famous. It was constructed in 1889.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Harvard Hall, 1465-1483 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Old Yard:
this is the middle of the yard and it is called the old yard. Harvard was founded in 1636 but it was not called Harvard College at the time. It was founded by the Massachusetts Bay Colony and it actually didn't get its name, Harvard until two years later, when a wealthy man by the name of John Harvard passed away and donated money, land and his entire book collection.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: John Harvard Statue, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
The statue was cast in 1884 by Daniel Chester French, the same artist who cast the statues of sitting Lincoln in Washington DC. He was a very renowned artist and this is actually the third most photographed statue in the United States after the Statue of Liberty and the Lincoln Memorial.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St Between Cambridge and Kirkland Streets, Cambridge, MA 02138-3003
A lot of people think that this is a church. It is actually a secular place that happens to very much resemble a church. It was built in 1870 as a memorial to the Harvard affiliates who lost their lives during the American civil war.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138-4191
Harry Widener was class of 1907 and this library opened in his memory in 1915. The library holds over 6 million books-that is over 50 miles of books! You could run two marathons inside the library and not pass the same book twice! It is a huge and extensive collection and because most of the collection is underground, it leads to a very insensitive story at Harvard.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Harvard Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
This is the Harvard Science Center. The Ford family donated the money to build it and as you can see, there are many floors and levels to the science center. It is said that technology gets more complex as the floors rise.
The students jokingly say that since the technology gets more complex, that must mean that the higher up you take your classes in the science center, the more intelligent you are.
Duration: 10 minutes
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Stop At: Boston Common, 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111-1318
Boston Common founded in 1634 spans nearly 50 acres. When the Puritans arrived at Boston in 1630, they found a settler named William Black and then things changed. Book the tour to learn more
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, Corner of Beacon Street & Park Street, Boston, MA 02108
The Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, located across Beacon Street from the State House, serves as a memorial to the some of the first African Americans to fight in the Revolutionary War. Book the tour to learn more about this revolutionary war.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Park Street Church, One Park Street, Boston, MA 02108-4899
The 217-foot steeple of this church was once the first landmark travelers saw when approaching Boston. Book the tour to know its history and architecture.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Granary Burying Ground, Tremont Street (between Park and School Sreets), Boston, MA 02108
Granary Burying Ground was established in the 1660s. It was named for an adjacent granary located where Park Street church is today. So who was buried here?? Book the tour to learn more.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: King's Chapel, 58 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108-3201
King’s Chapel, the first Anglican Church in Boston, was founded in 1686 and houses the oldest American pulpit in continuous use. Book the tour to know why no resident would sell land for a church, which eventually had to be built on a public burying ground.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Statue of Benjamin Franklin, School St. at City Hall Ave, Boston, MA
Boston Latin School is the oldest public school in the 13 colonies. Boston Latin was founded in 1635 and what became the aptly named School Street, where it existed for about a century before it was torn down. Book the tour to learn more..
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Boston Irish Famine Memorial, Washington St., Boston, MA
Funded by a trust led by Boston businessman Thomas Flatley, the Irish park was opened in 1998. Book the tour to learn why this memorial has received contrasting reviews and has since been called "the most mocked and reviled public sculpture in Boston"?
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108-4616
Old South Meeting House is a Puritan place of worship that was built in 1729 and today functions as a museum. It was one of the largest buildings in Boston at that time. Book the tour to learn more about the house’s hour of fame in the winter of 1773.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Old Corner Book Store, 283 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108, USA
The Old Corner Bookstore, across the street where you are, is the oldest commercial building in Boston. It was built in 1718 as a pharmacy or apothecary shop. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Tennyson, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and many others gathered here to discuss their works and exchange literary gossip at what they called The Saturday Club. Book the tour to learn more.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Boston Massacre Site, 206 Washington St, Boston, MA 02109-1702
The Boston Massacre took place in front of the balcony, and the site is now marked by a cobblestone circle in the square. Allow us to set the scene…book the tour to learn more.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Faneuil Hall Marketplace, 1 Faneuil Hall Sq Quincy Market, Boston, MA 02109-1604
Faneuil Hall has been around since 1742 and is known as the Cradle of Liberty. Faneuil Hall was the scene of the most stirring public meetings on the eve of the American Revolution with the great Patriot orators of the day sounding from its platform. Book the tour to learn more.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: New England Holocaust Memorial, Between Congress and Union Streets, Boston, MA 02109
On the way to the next stop on the Freedom Trail, you will see the New England Holocaust Memorial on the left. While not a typical Freedom Trail stop, it is an important and interesting monument. Book the tour to learn more....
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Haymarket, Blackstone St, Boston, MA
Also not one of the designated Freedom trail stops the Haymarket. It is an open-air market where vendors sell fruits, vegetables, and seafood at very low prices.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Rose Kennedy Greenway, JFK Surface Road, Boston, MA 02111
Another non-Freedom trail stop on the way is The Rose Kennedy Greenway. It is a linear park that stretches over several downtown Boston neighborhoods. Book the tour to learn more..
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: The Paul Revere House, 19 North Sq, Boston, MA 02113-2405
Paul Revere's home. Yes! It still stands today. It was constructed around 1680 and he purchased it in 1770. Book the tour to learn about its history and interesting facts..
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Old North Church & Historic Site, 193 Salem St, Boston, MA 02113-1123
This is Christ Church, but it is more popularly known as Old North Church. Book the tour to learn why It is most famous for being the site of Paul Revere's two lantern signal on the eve of the American Revolution?
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Corner of Snow Hill and Hull Streets, Boston, MA 02118
Copp's Hill burying ground is in the north end. Thousands of people are entombed here. Book the tour to know why it was a place for the less affluent including craftsmen, mechanics, and artisans?
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: USS Constitution Museum, Bldg 22 Charlestown Navy Yard Charlestown, Boston, MA 02129
The USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship in American history. It was first launched in 1797. Book the tour to learn why it famously earned the nickname of Old Ironsides during the War of 1812?
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Bunker Hill Monument, Monument Square, Boston, MA 02129
The Bunker Hill Monument was erected to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill, which was among the first major battles between British and Patriot forces in the American Revolutionary War. The monument is not on Bunker Hill, but instead on Breed's Hill, where most of the fighting in the misnamed Battle of Bunker Hill actually took place. Book the tour to learn why The Monument Association, which had purchased the battlefield site, was forced to sell off all but the hill's summit in order to complete the monument.?
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Johnston Gate, 1465-1483 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
The Johnston Gate is one of the several entrances to Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is the first gate ever built at Harvard and by far the most famous. It was constructed in 1889.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Harvard Hall, 1465-1483 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Old Yard:
this is the middle of the yard and it is called the old yard. Harvard was founded in 1636 but it was not called Harvard College at the time. It was founded by the Massachusetts Bay Colony and it actually didn't get its name, Harvard until two years later, when a wealthy man by the name of John Harvard passed away and donated money, land and his entire book collection.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: John Harvard Statue, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
The statue was cast in 1884 by Daniel Chester French, the same artist who cast the statues of sitting Lincoln in Washington DC. He was a very renowned artist and this is actually the third most photographed statue in the United States after the Statue of Liberty and the Lincoln Memorial.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St Between Cambridge and Kirkland Streets, Cambridge, MA 02138-3003
A lot of people think that this is a church. It is actually a secular place that happens to very much resemble a church. It was built in 1870 as a memorial to the Harvard affiliates who lost their lives during the American civil war.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138-4191
Harry Widener was class of 1907 and this library opened in his memory in 1915. The library holds over 6 million books-that is over 50 miles of books! You could run two marathons inside the library and not pass the same book twice! It is a huge and extensive collection and because most of the collection is underground, it leads to a very insensitive story at Harvard.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Harvard Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
This is the Harvard Science Center. The Ford family donated the money to build it and as you can see, there are many floors and levels to the science center. It is said that technology gets more complex as the floors rise.
The students jokingly say that since the technology gets more complex, that must mean that the higher up you take your classes in the science center, the more intelligent you are.
Duration: 10 minutes
Included
- Self-Guided Audio Tour Guide APP & ONE TIME PASSWORD for iPhone and Android
- Please allow 30 minutes for the system to activate your password.
- Live GPS Map with route to follow
- Professionally curated and narrated audio stories and pictures for each attractions
Not included
- Food, beverage, transport, parking, tickets to paid attractions
- Entry/Admission - Boston Common
- Entry/Admission - Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial
- Entry/Admission - Park Street Church
- Entry/Admission - Granary Burying Ground
- Entry/Admission - King's Chapel
- Entry/Admission - Statue of Benjamin Franklin
- Entry/Admission - Boston Irish Famine Memorial
- Entry/Admission - Old South Meeting House
- Entry/Admission - Old Corner Book Store
- Entry/Admission - Boston Massacre Site
- Entry/Admission - Faneuil Hall Marketplace
- Entry/Admission - New England Holocaust Memorial
- Entry/Admission - Haymarket
- Entry/Admission - Rose Kennedy Greenway
- Entry/Admission - The Paul Revere House
- Entry/Admission - Old North Church & Historic Site
- Entry/Admission - Copp's Hill Burying Ground
- Entry/Admission - USS Constitution Museum
- Entry/Admission - Bunker Hill Monument
- Entry/Admission - Johnston Gate
- Entry/Admission - Harvard Hall
- Entry/Admission - John Harvard Statue
- Entry/Admission - Memorial Hall
- Entry/Admission - Cambridge Public Library
- Entry/Admission - Harvard Science Center Plaza
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Near public transportation
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
Features
Tourism
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Cultural
55%
Original
35%
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this was very confusing to follow. Directions were not clear because you had to keep looking at the map to figure out where to go and the brick pathway did not run continuous. Was cheap so did not complain. Also...to get the app the directions were wrong.