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Loyalists of Cambridge

Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

  • 30 - 60 minutes
  • 6 tour stops

While the houses and street names on this tour have long memorialized individual people, the history of the properties themselves represent themes of inequality, aristocracy, and multiplicities of experiences that this tour seeks to bring to light. A walking tour developed by students in HIST 1776, Harvard College, Fall 2021.

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