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Old North Church Freedom Trail Boston

The Old North Church is Boston’s oldest church--it dates to 1723.

On April 18, 1775, sexton Robert Newman lit two lanterns in the tower to alert Paul Revere that the British were arriving by sea. The rest, as they say, is history!

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