In the Footsteps of Paul Revere
Tours daily 10:30, 1:30 or 2:30
​Tours are kept small, enhanced with amplification and ADA compliant.
Go beyond his ride and learn of the enormous contribution made to  society and the industrial and military development of the United States.

Click on each circle of walkers in the map                                    Paul Revere's Neighborhood 
​below to follow in Paul Revere's footsteps.                                                                                   

Paul Revere, the artisan at the age of 35, by John Singleton Copley exibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Seven years before his midnight ride.

At 79, in his staunch colonial dress. By Gilbert Stuart, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 1812/1813, five years before his death at 83.

The Old North Church steeple toppled in the 1804 hurricane; now 16 feet lower.

The Revere family's King Chapel bell, installed in May of 1816, weighing 2.437 pounds, the second largest produced. Also served as the "passing bell' May 10, 1818, the day Paul Revere died. It rang three times to designate a male and 83 times for his age.

Paul's sketch for the Boston Massacre trials.

Edes and Gills printing museum. An action packed ten minutes.

Captain Jackson serves hot chocolate from the 18th C; the third most popular drink after cider and milk

The occupying force had little reverence for burial grounds, church's, landmarks, vacant homes or Colonial laws.

As a young man Paul lived next door to the Hichbourns. Paul's father married Deborah Hichbourn (often spelled differently) .

Paul was 19, and assumed the business upon his father's death, after he paid off his indenture to his mother.

4/18/1770, Paul was rowed across by two friends. A dog, a petticoat and a borrowed horse, played a major role in their success.

Mitch Lapin leading a tour down the Freedom Trail.

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To visit our associates' great walking tour covering America's immigration history by Ted Kulik, click here.