North Square
Here in North Square
Lived Paul Revere and his wife
Rachel Revere for whom this overlook is named
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Here lived Major Pitcairn
of the soldiery
occupying Boston in 1775
Governor Thomas Hutchinson
Sir Harry Frankland
William Clark
The alarm that British troops
were marching to Concord
to seize Patriot stores
was given by Paul Revere
Many men of North Square
and its neighborhood
joined the Boston Tea Party
at Griffin’s Wharf
and threw the tea overboard
This public open space built
and this tablet erected
by the Boston Park Commission
Marker is at the intersection of North Square and North Street, on the right when traveling north on North Square.
Courtesy hmdb.org
