Old North Church

 

 

 

 

The Old North Church was the last building that we visited on our trip. It is the oldest standing church in Boston. Inside this steeple, on the night of April 18, 1775, Robert Newman and John Pulling Jr. climbed to the top (almost 8 stories) to hold two lanterns, signaling to colonists in Charlestown that the Redcoats were on the march. Two lanterns meant that British soldiers intended to cross the Charles River to Cambrige, rather than taking the longer land-route. These soldiers would march to Lexington and on to Concord in an effort to capture guns and ammunition from the colonists.
Meanwhile, Paul Revere's friends rowed him across the Charles River to Charlestown. He borrowed a horse to start his famous "Midnight Ride" to Lexington, where he would warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the Redcoats were coming.