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Take a Journey Back in Time During Revolutionary America

Join us as history experts take you on a journey through the past, reliving the days surrounding the American Revolution.

States of Interest:
Massachusetts
Historic Tours
Boston, MA

Join a National Park Service Ranger as they share Boston’s diverse history through unique guided tours. Becoming American During the Siege of Boston July 16 & September 10 During a year under siege...

Massachusetts
Historic Tours
Boston, MA

Join a National Park Service Ranger as they share Boston’s diverse history through unique guided tours. A Man Kidnapped: Boston Resists the Fugitive Slave Act August 13 & September 17 On June 2, 1854...

Massachusetts
Historic Tours
Boston, MA

Join a National Park Service Ranger as they share Boston’s diverse history through unique guided tours. Boston: An Underground Railroad Hub June 25 & September 24 Did you know that Boston played a...

Massachusetts
Historic Tours
Boston, MA

Join a National Park Service Ranger as they share Boston’s diverse history through unique guided tours. Pirates and Puritans: Cotton Mather and the Pirate Trial of 1717 July 23 & October 22 In 1717...

Massachusetts
Historic Tours
Boston, MA

Join a National Park Service Ranger as they share Boston’s diverse history through unique guided tours. Desegregation in the Cradle of Liberty August 20 & September 3 Boston earned its nickname as the...

Massachusetts
Historic Tours
Boston, MA

Join a National Park Service Ranger as they share Boston’s diverse history through unique guided tours. Henry Knox: A Pillar of the Early American Republic July 30 & August 27 On March 5, 1770, a...

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Exploring 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.
Historic Site | National Park
New York, NY

Relocated Mansion of Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton.

Historic Site |
Victor, NY

Historic Seneca town featuring a fully reconstructed longhouse and state-of-the-art interpretive museum.

State/County Park | Historic Site
Halifax, NC

Explore colonial Halifax at a preserved Revolutionary-era town where historic homes, public spaces, and hands-on exhibits reveal how North Carolinians lived, worked, and governed in the 1700s. From influential leaders’ residences to springs, markets, and river landings, the site brings everyday life in a pivotal American community into sharp focus.

Historic Site | Battlefield
Brooklyn, NY
Sixteen Union generals, including Henry Halleck, Henry Slocum, Abram Duryee, and Fitz-John Porter, and two Confederate generals are buried at The Green-Wood Cemetery. Several Civil War monuments...
Historic Site | Marker
Halifax, NC
In April 1777, Lafayette sailed on the Victoire, a ship built with his personal funds, for North America to serve as a military leader in the American Revolution, despite a royal decree prohibiting...
Historic Site | Historic House
Charleston, SC

This historic house museum was the home of Thomas Heyward, Jr., one of four South Carolina signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Historic Site |
Staten Island, NY
President James Monroe invited the Marquis de Lafayette to visit the United States, his adopted country. Lafayette’s tour of all 24 states in 1824 and 1825 drew large crowds and sparked a renewal of...
Historic Site |
Katonah, NY

The home and farm of John Jay, one of America's Founding Fathers.

Battlefield
Princeton, NJ

After crossing the Delaware, George Washington's ten-day campaign culminated in a decisive victory at the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777, proving his army could defeat the British. The battle saw Washington's forces overcome initial setbacks to rout the British and shift the momentum of the war

Battlefield | State/County Park
Oriskany, NY

On August 6, 1777, British forces under the command of Sir John Johnson engaged American forces under Nicholas Herkimer in the Battle of Oriskany, resulting in one of the few battles of the war where all the participants were North American.

Historic Site |
Edenton, NC

Built in 1767, the Chowan County Courthouse is one of the oldest operating courthouses in the country and still serves the North Carolina Supreme Court to this day.

Historic Site
Charleston, SC

Completed in 1771, the Old Exchange Building is a Charleston landmark and the site of some of the most important events in South Carolina history. Over the last two and a half centuries, the building has been a commercial exchange, custom house, post office, city hall, military headquarters, and museum.