Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

The Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts

2 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

The Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts

WHERE GEORGE WHITEFIELD, THE GREAT EVANGELIST, IS BURIED More than one hundred years after the organization of the First Church of…

The Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts: Whitefield

During the war twenty-two vessels and one thousand men, from the towns of Newbury and Newburyport, were lost at sea. The first American…

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