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This gray house was built in 1787 and is on elf the oldest standing houses on Beacon Hill. It was the home to George Middleton (1735-1815), a Revolutionary War veteran who led one of three black militias that fought in the Civil War. He also founded…

The past home of John J. Smith (1820-1906), who was a leading abolitionist and recruiting officer for the all-black 5th Cavalry in the Civil War. He also served on the Massachusetts House of Representatives for three terms.

The overlap of the Boston city tour bus with the Charles Street Meeting House, the home of a long segregationist tradition of church seating and the struggle against it, provides a snapshot of the different temporal layers that intersect in Beacon…

The frame, almost resembling a piece of modern art, reveals the underlying layers of brick and paint under the currently recreated walls of the African Meeting House.

The Museum of African American History was once the Abiel Smith School, the first black public school that replaced the school in the basement of the African Meeting House. The school remained Boston's black public school until public schools were…

Lewis Hayden (1816-1889) was born a slave and eventually escaped with his wife to settle in Boston. Lewis later became a leader in the abolitionist movement and the Hayden House became a key stop on the Underground Railroad.

The residential streets of Beacon Hill possess a generally peaceful and calm ambience, lined with beautiful brick row houses, black gas lamps, and towering trees of bright green foliage.

The residential streets of Beacon Hill possess a generally peaceful and calm ambience, lined with beautiful brick row houses, black gas lamps, and towering trees of bright green foliage.

Pictured above, the crowded Divanyolu street provided to be an enticing opportunity for progressive urban planners to Westernize Istanbul's roads

Yedikule Fortress, Inner Courtyard