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Boston is first and foremost historic city of the United States. If Philadelphia was the birth of the young nation, the Boston roots go back even further glimpse ...
all began in 1620, when the Mayflower , to the warm Carolina, Plymouth has landed its 102 occupants. The settlers will base Boston in 1630, and this is the beginning of a long series of "first U.S.", the newspaper of the School, through the hanging (the city will long religious values intolerant Puritans who founded, where the history of the Salem witch , or hanging Mary Dyer ). The city is growing rapidly thanks to its port, a hub of transportation of goods of the British crown. She would later play a central role during the Revolution by setting fire to the powder (the Boston Tea Party ...), and being the place of memorable fights (you know the ride of Paul Revere ?) and deserves its nickname of "Cradle of Liberty". The city continues to grow quietly, dominated by a few families of WASP. But worms from 1840, there was a large immigration of Irish, then Italians, forming a large Catholic community. And coincidence or not, the economic situation is complicated, and Boston becomes progressively unsavory: the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti was the Boston Strangler. Yet the city has always been an intellectual home of the first plane (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Longfellow are proud representatives), and renewal will come from investments in universities (Harvard and MIT) and research (second pole Silicon Valley after ). And it is immensely wealthy Bostonian who will be the first Catholic president of the United States: JFK!

With its impressive passes, the beloved city and its history would have it, offering its visitors a huge museum outdoors: the Freedom Trail . Simple, just follow the red line (or has a bad default plan). So leave aside the chronological order to follow the geographical order, and enter a little further in American history.

- It begins at Boston Common , a park or place was installed in 1622 the first European in this corner: William Blackstone, who lived as a hermit with his library until the Puritan settlers arrived in 1930. He has naturally invited to join him, for which the colonists thank him graciously leaving 50 acres of his land ... They resell 2 years later for 30 pounds and will go elsewhere if people are nicer. The story ends in fine style by returning to the fold 25 years later, riding a white bull, to marry an Bostonians.

- The New State House strongly resembles the Capitol, the same architect who built the two and he had little imagination. That Samuel Adams (who did not just beer), then governor, who commanded, and Paul Revere (who did more than the horse) who led the work. Opposite the first positive portrayal of blacks by a white .

- Park Street Church , built in 1809, is famous for having made his steps echoing on the first anti-slavery speech (July 4, 1829, there will be a job ...), and the anthem "America" for the first time. Its cemetery contains the remains parents of Benjamin Franklin of Paul Revere, John Hancock, Samuel Adams and victims of the Boston Massacre (which sparked the revolution). Besides Mary Goose, nursery rhymes that . Rien que ça ! So it's a tourist attraction, where people have no respect. I saw people lying on the vaults! I approach, and I hear them speak French ... Hatred of my compatriots here takes on gigantic proportions. That said, people have always been built, and the eighteenth, a local baker steals a gravestone to make it the foundation of its bread oven. He was caught by police who recognized the funerary inscription engraved in their loaf ...

- King's Chapel is a fine example of the political spirit which prevailed in the days of 1st settlers. In 1680, King James II of England orders the construction of an Anglican church in Boston. It does not work very well at the Bostonians, who have settled here precisely to escape religious intolerance. Given the impossibility to find common ground, the governor of the time (always on the side of the crown) allocates the site of a small church with its cemetery. Not to disturb the service, the new church will be built around the first, then the first released piece by piece through the window ... In the famous cemetery adjoining graves are found, much less famous but far more beautiful , including Mary Chilton, the very first settler to have set foot in America!

- We pass quickly first public school in the world and former Book Store, who was the Boston Montmartre, to regain control of buildings actors and events that have cost England the United States.

- Old South Meeting House as the tallest building in the city, hosted the meetings of stormy Bostniens angered by laws and taxes ordered by the new King George III a bit dumb (Stamp Act in 1765, Townshen Act in 1767, Tea Act in 1773). This last act was the straw that broke the camel's back, negotiations with Governor Hutchinson held in the building above quote for the Dartmouth , ship moored just full of tea, left without clear his goods. Negotiations fail, as always-and Samuel Adams finally said "Gentlemen, this meeting can-do nothing more to save the country". This is not a resignation, but the signal for a hundred Bostonians disguised as Indians, followed in 2000 spectators flock to the port to clear the Dartmouth its cargo. A loss of 9659 pounds, a million euros today ... It is well on the episode of the Boston Tea Party .

- Old State House has seen the first speeches advocating independence, by James Otis in 1761, 15 years before the declaration. The speech touched everyone, but Otis has still lost his trial, since the Governor Hutchinson was both judge, jury and prosecutor ... Also in front of this building was held the Boston Massacre, a skirmish that was put down by British soldiers by the subtle technique of the shooting. March 5, 1770, 5 dead. In itself, Not Such a Big Deal, but revolutionary, including Paul Revere, made an example of propaganda, and the fire was already in powder. It was hatching a few years anyway. And it is from the balcony of the Old State House that was read, July 18, 1776, the Declaration of Independence, freshly arrived from Philadelphia with bonfires force has the key.


That concludes today's visit to the unfortunate who reached this will be pleased to learn that this is generally only half ...
The rest of the adventure tomorrow, if you wish. Otherwise, the photos are .