Boston National Historical Park

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Boston National Historical Park
IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)

Location	Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Nearest city	Boston, MA
Coordinates	42°21′36″N 71°03′23″W / 42.36, -71.05639
Area	43 acres (0.17 km²)
Established	October 1, 1974
Visitors	1,992,242 (in 2005)
Governing body	National Park Service

The Boston National Historical Park is an association of sites that showcase Boston's role in the American Revolution. It was designated a national park on October 1, 1974. Seven of the eight sites are connected by the Freedom Trail, a walking tour of downtown Boston.

Several of the sites within the park are neither owned nor operated by the National Park Service, and operate through cooperative agreements established upon the park's creation.

The eight sites are as follows:

The Bunker Hill Monument - directly owned and operated by the NPS.
The Charlestown Navy Yard (including the USS Constitution) - The Navy Yard itself belongs to the Park Service, but the Constitution is still a commissioned U.S. Navy warship.
Dorchester Heights - directly owned and operated by the NPS.
Faneuil Hall - Owned and operated by the City of Boston, and interpreted by National Park Rangers.
The Old North Church - Owned and operated by its parish.
The Old South Meeting House - Owned and operated by an independent organization founded to preserve it.
The Old State House - Owned and operated by the Bostonian Society since 1881.
The Paul Revere House - Owned and operated by the Paul Revere Memorial Association.

[edit] External links

National Park Service web site for the park

v • d • e Protected Areas of Massachusetts

National Park Service	National Historical Parks: Adams • Boston • Lowell • Minute Man • New Bedford Whaling • National Historic Sites: Boston African American • Frederick Law Olmsted • John Fitzgerald Kennedy • Longfellow • Salem Maritime • Saugus Iron Works • Springfield Armory • Other: Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area • Cape Cod National Seashore

National Wildlife Refuges	Assabet River • Great Meadows • Mashpee • Massasoit • Monomoy • Nantucket • Nomans Land • Oxbow • Parker River • Silvio O. Conte • Thacher Island

State Parks	Alewife Brook • Ames Nowell • Ashland • Bash Bish Falls • Blackstone River and Canal Heritage • Borderland • Boston Harbor Islands • Bradley Palmer • C. M. Gardner • Callahan • Castle Island State Park • Chicopee Memorial • City Square • Clarksburg • Cochituate • Connecticut River Greenway • Demarest Lloyd • Dighton Rock • Dunn • Ellisville Harbor • Fall River Heritage • Gardner Heritage • Great Brook Farm • Halibut Point • Hampton Ponds • Holyoke Heritage • Hopkinton • Lake Lorraine • Lake Wyola • Lawrence Heritage • Lowell Heritage • Lynn Heritage • Massasoit • Maudslay • Moore • Mount Holyoke Range • Natural Bridge • Nickerson • Pearl Hill • Pilgrim • Quinsigamond • Robinson • Roxbury Heritage • Rutland • Skinner • South Cape Beach • Wahconah Falls • Webb Memorial • Wells • Western Gateway Heritage • Whitehall • Wompatuck

State Parks: Reservations	Beaver Brook • Belle Isle Marsh • Blue Hills • Breakheart • Charles River • Chestnut Hill • Cutler • Dorchester Shores • Elm Bank • Fort Phoenix • Hammond Pond • Hemlock Gorge • Horseneck Beach • Jug End • Lynn Shore • Middlesex Fells • Mount Everett • Mount Greylock • Mount Sugarloaf • Mount Tom • Myles Standish • Mystic River • Nahant Beach • Nantasket Beach • Nasketucket Bay • Neponset River • Pope John Paul II • Purgatory Chasm • Quincy Quarries • Quincy Shore • Revere Beach • Rumney Marsh • Salisbury Beach • Sandy Point • Scusset Beach • Stony Brook • Upper Charles River • Wachusett Mountain • Walden Pond • Weymouth • Wilson Mountain

State Parks: Other	Appalachian Trail • Ashuwillticook Rail Trail • Cape Cod Rail Trail • Fort Revere • Lake Dennison Recreation Area • Lower Neponset River Trail • Nashua River Rail Trail • Norwottuck Rail Trail • Quabbin Reservoir • Southwest Corridor Park • Squantum Point Park • Streeter Point Recreation Area • Sudbury Reservoir • Wachusett Reservoir • Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve • Ware River Watershed Area

State Forests	Beartown • Brimfield • Chester-Blandford • DAR • Douglas • Erving • F. Gilbert Hills • Federated Women's Club • Freetown-Fall River • Georgetown Rowley • Granville • Harold Parker • Kenneth Dubuque Memorial • Leominster • Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro • Manuel F. Correllus • Mohawk Trail • Monroe • Mount Grace • Mount Washington • Myles Standish • October Mountain • Otter River • Pittsfield • Sandisfield • Savoy Mountain • Shawme-Crowell • Spencer • Tolland • Upton • Wendell • Willard Brook • Willowdale • Windsor

Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation

v • d • e National Historical Parks of the United States

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