6/10/18 Boston’s Freedom Trail

It is a 45 minute train ride from Lowell to the North Station in Boston. The following are Images from Boston’s Freedom Trail walking tour. While Boston is a very modern and progressive city, the original colonial section has very narrow streets running in a rather random pattern over hills that are packed full of buildings of various sizes from various eras. The weird angles from which some of the photos were taken was necessitated by those factors. With regard to the lighting, the photos were taken during mid-day hours when the sun was overhead creating patches of light and dark in the same scenes.

The Old West Church – built 1737, rebuilt 1806 (now a Methodist Church)

Joy Street with its window flowers boxes and mini-park

Mass State House – the Face on the Boston Common - and the Firefighter Memorial – State House on Bowdoin St. side

Boston Common as viewed from east side

Old Granary Burial Ground and grave of Paul Revere – Adjacent to Park Street Church (not shown)

Nearby King’s Chapel (1749)- the first Anglican Church in colonial New England, started in 1686

Ben Franklin – in front of the Old City Hall 1865-1969. Franklin was born in Boston so he is famous in two cities

Irish Famine Memorial - the city accepted thousand of Irish immigrants during the period - and the nearby South Meeting House Congregational Church (1729) where revolutionary ideas were debated, e.g., Boston Tea Party

Shopping: Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall - the hall held the first town meeting and is where the Sons of Liberty was formed

Langone Park - a water front park on the North End developed in the early 1970s

Paul Revere House (read view), Statue, and Old North Church (3rd building, this one from 1950)

Boston Gardens & North Rail Station from the plaza outside Converse National Headquarters, and the adjacent Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge from two views, one from the Bobby Hall Statue