2 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
Daily Tour
15 people
English
Experience the Black Heritage Trail and get to know more about Civil War-era Boston on this small-group walking tour. In the company of a guide, head out into Beacon Hill and hear stories about the Underground Railroad, Boston Brahmins, and other historical facts. Enjoy a focus particularly on the Civil War years.
The tour gathers on Boston Common at the intersection of Beacon and Charles Streets. Please meet your guide at 1 Charles Street (02108), inside Boston Common and across the street from Starbucks Coffee.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Oldest public land in the Americas and Boston’s communal grazing pasture (1634)
• Admission Ticket Free
Narrow cobblestone alleyways wind throughout historic Beacon Hill
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Elegant neighborhood square from elite world of 19th-century “Boston Brahmins”
• Admission Ticket Free
Built as a whites-only school in 1824, but among the first schools to integrate in Boston by 1855
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Home of leading abolitionist, state legislator, and former barber
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Primary thoroughfare of Beacon Hill, lined with local shops and restaurants
• Admission Ticket Free
Historic meeting house (1807) and site of contentious debate over racial integration
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Home of African-American community activist and abolitionist
• Admission Ticket Free
Underground Railroad safe house owned by the Haydens, staunch abolitionists who were formerly enslaved
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
1796 residence of Harrison Gray Otis, Boston mayor and nephew of revolutionary James Otis, Jr.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Historic 1806 church designed by noted architect Asher Benjamin
• Admission Ticket Free
Home of outspoken abolitionist and U.S. Senator beaten unconscious in the Capitol over the issue of slavery in 1856.
• Admission Ticket Free
Homes of several African-American abolitionists, including historian William Cooper Nell
• Admission Ticket Free
Founded in 1835 as segregated school for Boston’s African-American children
• Admission Ticket Free
Cultural center of Boston’s African-American community and oldest extant black church building in the U.S. (1806)
25 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
Oldest extant house in Beacon Hill (1787) was home to African-American Revolutionary War veteran
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Massachusetts state capitol and “Hub of the Solar System” (1798)
• Admission Ticket Free
Our tour concludes beside the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial opposite 24 Beacon Street.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
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