Built by Edmund Hartt and launched September 20, 1797, “Old Ironsides,” as she is familiarly known, was in about forty engagements and never suffered defeat. She has been rebuilt and restored to her former condition by the school children of the United States. Leaving the “Constitution,” we travel back to the main gate and out on to Chelsea Street once more. Here we turn right on Chelsea Street and left on Tremont Street to the
Bunker Hill Monument
Here you will see a granite obelisk, two hundred and twenty-one feet high on Breed’s Hill, within the lines of the American Redoubt which was the center of the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Open to the public daily from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m., the admission fee being ten cents.
Leaving the monument, we go down Lexington Street to City Square where we take the elevated train to North Station. Arriving at North Station, go downstairs and take the subway back to Arlington Street where we leave the subway and return to our starting point.
BUNKER HILL
A DAY’S AUTO TRIP THROUGH HISTORIC
SUBURBAN BOSTON
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The Start
Let us get into our automobile in front of the Hotel Statler on the Providence Street side. Swing left around the island and right at Arlington Street and again right at Boylston Street along which we drive to Charles Street, where we turn left. Proceed along Charles Street with the Boston Common on our right and the Public Gardens on our left and continue to the first rotary traffic circle where we swing around, by the AMOCO Service Station and cross the Longfellow Bridge (made famous by Longfellow’s poem “I stood on the bridge at midnight”). Arriving on the Cambridge shore, go sharp right and follow around to the right on to