History in Boston

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.