Book Description
This guide includes forty walks through Boston's major historic areas including: Beacon Hill, the Common, and Cambridge. With information such as history of the area, architecture, politics, religion, and intrigues of the past.
Author : John Harris
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : 9780762705191
This guide includes forty walks through Boston's major historic areas including: Beacon Hill, the Common, and Cambridge. With information such as history of the area, architecture, politics, religion, and intrigues of the past.
Author : John Harris
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781564401571
This guide includes forty walks through Boston's major historic areas including: Beacon Hill, the Common, and Cambridge. With information such as history of the area, architecture, politics, religion, and intrigues of the past.
Author : John Harris
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : John Harris
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN :
Author : Jerry Morris
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762708062
A seamless blend of past and present, Boston offers an inexhaustible supply of places to go and things to do. Come and explore the Hub of New England - its modern attractions as well as its monuments to liberty. This guide offers valuable information on walking tours, touring by auto, historical sites, and famous museums. Learn about Cambridge, the city across the Charles that combines grand traditions and classic art with an international community. This handy guide is also filled with practical tips on public transportation, accommodations, dining, entertainment, shopping, and sports and recreation. Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition also includes 13 new day trips from Boston, to destinations including Lexington, Concord, Salem, and Cape Cod.
Author : Charles Bahne
Publisher : Museyon
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 193845006X
Discover one of !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--America's most historic cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning Boston's 400-year history, and then visit the places where history happened on walking tours of the city's historic neighborhoods. Boston expert Charles Bahne reveals some of the city's most shocking moments, from a murder mystery on the Harvard campus to the mistake that sent two million gallons of molasses pouring down Commerce Street. Other essays explore major historic events including the Boston Tea Party and the ride of Paul Revere to the establishment of the Red Sox and Fenway Park. The book also contains stories about John Hancock, Charles Bulfinch, Fredrick Law Olmsted, Alexander Graham Bell, Isabella Stewart Gardner, the Kennedys, and more.
Author : Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781531667252
Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the Massachusetts State House as the "Hub of the Universe." In Boston: A Historic Walking Tour, readers are guided on a series of downtown walking tours that radiate out from this Boston landmark. Featuring different excursions that explore Boston's prominent neighborhoods and districts, visitors and natives alike will see how this city has become one of the country's oldest cultural destinations. Boston's growth and development in the 19th and 20th centuries has contributed to it becoming the unofficial "Capital of New England"; its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region is far reaching. Although Boston is known for its notoriously crooked streets and narrow alleys, it is a mecca for walkers looking to take in historic sites and surround themselves with history. Walk along Tremont, Washington, Beacon, and Summer Streets to explore downtown Boston. Saunter down Beacon Street on Beacon Hill and Boylston Street in the Back Bay to take in the city's most beloved sites.
Author : Jerry Morris
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762703265
A seamless blend of past and present, Boston offers an inexhaustible supply of places to go and things to do. Come and explore "the Hub" of New England - its modern attractions as well as its monuments to liberty. This guide offers valuable information on walking tours, touring by auto, historical sites, and famous museums. Learn about Cambridge, the city across the Charles that combines grand traditions and classic art with an international community. This handy guide is also filled with practical tips on public transportation, accommodations, dining, entertainment, shopping, and sports and recreation. Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition also includes 13 new day trips from Boston, to destinations including Lexington, Concord, Salem, and Cape Cod.
Author : Albert William Mann
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN :
Author : Anna Mantzaris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0762765518
Residents and visitors alike can journey back in time as they follow Boston’s 2 1⁄2-mile Freedom Trail past twenty-six historic landmarks that embody pivotal events in the formation of America—including the site of the Boston Massacre and the Bunker Hill Monument. Timeline Books These one-of-a-kind guides allow readers to move through time as never before, bringing them face to face with the people and events behind some of America’s most important historical landmarks and locations. No other guidebooks draw so much on the first-hand accounts of those involved in the historic events that transpired in the areas covered—making readers feel as if they are experiencing living history. Each book features: * Two popout® maps—a historical map showing the area as it once was; and a modern map marking every stop on the tour and place mentioned in the text. * Additional color maps and up to 40-60 photos, both historical and modern * An introduction by an expert that sets the area in historical context * A timeline showing key historical events * A detailed walking tour of the present-day site, interspersed with first-hand accounts interspersed in the text or included as sidebars * Concise and colorful biographies of key historical figures * Where to stay and eat, and places to visit nearby