CAMBRIDGE/LEXINGTON/CONCORD

CAMBRIDGE -CAN BE DONE WITH BOSTON CITY TOUR-ALLOW 1 EXTRA HOUR

Explore Cambridge,  Boston’s sister city across the Charles River. Cambridge  is a preeminent center of learning, and we will tour Harvard University, the oldest university in the country. In and around the historic “Yard”, are buildings representing the history of architecture in America.  We will also see MIT, founded as a school where students could learn “exactly and thoroughly the fundamental principles of positive science with application to the industrial arts”.  Cambridge  was also the home of Longfellow, and we will pass his home, as we drive along Brattle Street, known during the Revolution as “Tory Row” for the mansions belonging to the Loyalists. 

LEXINGTON AND CONCORD   HALF DAY TOUR

Follow Paul Revere’s famous route, as he made his way from Boston to Lexington and Concord to warn the citizens that the British were coming.  We will stop at the Battle Green in Lexington, where the first battle of the American Revolution took place.  We will then follow the trail of the “minuteman” to Concord where “they fired the shot heard round the world”.  A stop at the Minuteman National Park, and  the Old North Bridge  will be included.  Concord was also known as a literary center,  with residents such as Louisa May Alcott,  Ralph Waldo Emerson,  Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.  We will pass some of their homes, as well as the home of Ephraim Bull, founder of the Concord grape. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord is the final resting-place for many of these literary figures, and we will visit this famous landmark. Our visit to Concord is completed with a drive by Walden Pond.