Beacon Hill: Small Group Tour Of Civil War Boston

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Stop At: William Hickling Prescott House, 55 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02108-3531

Meet your guide at the William Hickling Prescott House overlooking Boston Common, located at 55 Beacon Street (02108) and steps from the Black Heritage Trail.

Duration: 15 minutes

Pass By: Boston Common, 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111-1318

Oldest public land in the Americas and Boston's communal grazing pasture (1634)

Stop At: Acorn Street, Guide, Boston, MA 02108

Narrow cobblestone alleyways wind throughout historic Beacon Hill

Duration: 10 minutes

Pass By: Louisburg Square, Boston, MA 02108

Elegant neighborhood square from elite world of 19th-century "Boston Brahmins"

Stop At: Phillips School, 65 Anderson St, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Built as a whites-only school in 1824, but among the first schools to integrate in Boston by 1855

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: John J Smith House, 86 Pinckney St, Boston, MA 02108, USA

Home of leading abolitionist, state legislator, and former barber

Duration: 10 minutes

Pass By: Charles Street, Boston, MA

Primary thoroughfare of Beacon Hill, lined with local shops and restaurants

Stop At: Charles Street Meeting House, 70 Charles St, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Historic meeting house (1807) and site of contentious debate over racial integration

Duration: 15 minutes

Pass By: John Coburn House, 2 Phillips St, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Home of African-American community activist and abolitionist

Stop At: Lewis and Harriet Hayden House, 66 Phillips St, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Underground Railroad safe house owned by the Haydens, staunch abolitionists who were formerly enslaved

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Otis House, 141 Cambridge St, Boston, MA 02114-2702

1796 residence of Harrison Gray Otis, Boston mayor and nephew of revolutionary James Otis, Jr.

Duration: 10 minutes

Pass By: Old West Church, 131 Cambridge St, Boston, MA 02114-2702

Historic 1806 church designed by noted architect Asher Benjamin

Pass By: Charles Sumner House, 20 Hancock St, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Home of outspoken abolitionist and U.S. Senator beaten unconscious in the Capitol over the issue of slavery in 1856.

Pass By: Smith Court Residences, 56 Joy St, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Homes of several African-American abolitionists, including historian William Cooper Nell

Pass By: Abiel Smith School, 46 Joy St, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Founded in 1835 as segregated school for Boston's African-American children

Stop At: African Meeting House, 8 Smith Ct, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Cultural center of Boston's African-American community and oldest extant black church building in the U.S. (1806)

Duration: 25 minutes

Stop At: George Middleton House, 5 Pinckney St, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Oldest extant house in Beacon Hill (1787) was home to African-American Revolutionary War veteran

Duration: 10 minutes

Pass By: Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon St Beacon Hill, Boston, MA 02133-1099

Massachusetts state capitol and "Hub of the Solar System" (1798)

Stop At: Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, Corner of Beacon Street & Park Street, Boston, MA 02108

Our tour concludes beside the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial opposite 24 Beacon Street.

Duration: 15 minutes