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Paul Revere House, Boston MA |
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Paul Revere's house is an intimate museum of domestic life in 17th-century Boston. |
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American patriot Paul Revere (1735-1818) was a silversmith, bell-caster and revolutionary agitator, but he is most famously remembered for his "midnight ride" "through every Middlesex village and farm" to warn colonial Americans that a British expeditionary force had set out "by sea" from Boston, landed in Charlestown, and was on its way through Middlesex County to Lexington and Concord to sieze arms and ammunition stored there by the colonial "Minutemen" militias. Revere was an important figure in the American revolution, but it was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride" (1863) that assured Revere's place in the pantheon of American revolutionary heroes. Actually, Revere was not alone, and he never made it all the way to Concord, having been captured by the British on the outskirts of that town. (A plaque along Battle Road marks the spot of his capture.) Nevertheless, Paul Revere's house in Boston's North End is well worth a visit (map). It's the oldest extant house in Boston, and is a suitable museum of the age in which Revere and his revolutionary friends worked for independence from British colonial rule. The Paul Revere Memorial Association maintains the house...and the memory of the great patriot who once lived in it. Paul Revere House
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Paul Revere's House, North Square, Boston MA.
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