The Liberty Trail
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- parking
- restrooms
- wheelchair_accessible
- parking
- accessible_parking
- wheelchair_accessible
- pet_friendly
- parking
- accessible_parking
- wheelchair_accessible
- restrooms
- wifi
- parking
- restrooms
- pet_friendly
- parking
- accessible_parking
- wheelchair_accessible
- restrooms
- wifi
- parking
- accessible_parking
- wheelchair_accessible
- parking
- restrooms
- wheelchair_accessible
- parking
- accessible_parking
- restrooms
- pet_friendly
- parking
- accessible_parking
- wheelchair_accessible
- restrooms
- parking
- accessible_parking
- wheelchair_accessible
- restrooms
- wifi
- parking
- accessible_parking
- wheelchair_accessible
- restrooms
- wifi
- parking
- wheelchair_accessible
- restrooms
- pet_friendly
- parking
- restrooms
- wheelchair_accessible
- parking
- accessible_parking
- restrooms
Explore the many guided tours of The Liberty Trail
This Day on the Liberty Trail
Uncovering History
We invite you to visit the preserved locations along the Liberty Trail and to immerse
yourself in the extraordinary events that determined the fate of a nation.
Family Friendly Adventures
Discover a part of our nation’s history at historic landmarks and events.
Liberty Trail History Makers
The Revolutionary War was a war unlike any other — one of ideas and ideals, that shaped “the course of human events. Explore the history and personalities from this pivotal time in American history.
Regarded as the first martyr of the American Revolution, Crispus Attucks was the first to fall in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. Of African and Native American descent, he became a powerful symbol of the fight for liberty, later embraced by abolitionists as a hero of both American independence and the struggle for equality.
Tony Small, a formerly enslaved man, saved British soldier Lord Edward FitzGerald after the Battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781. Grateful, FitzGerald freed Small, who became his assistant and followed him to Ireland. They remained close until FitzGerald's death in 1798, after which Small settled near London.
In 1779, after a stalemate in the north, Cornwallis went south as second in command to Sir Henry Clinton. Clinton captured Charleston in May 1780. Cornwallis pressed on to defeat General Horatio Gates at Camden, South Carolina, on August 16, 1780.
A former Revolutionary War captain, he led Shays' Rebellion in protest of economic hardships and oppressive taxation, which ultimately exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and influenced the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
