Category: Old North History
By Jared Ross Hardesty, PhD
On the night of May 31, 1743, terror struck the Rising Sun. As the ship tracked eastward off the coast of…
Special thanks to Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis, Co-Director of Education, TJ Todd, Education Manager, and Latoyia Edwards of NBC…
Any North End local has become familiar with the tolls of Old North Church’s bells, but few are aware of their history, or the skill and technique…
Happy International Women’s Day!
Here at Old North, women from all different backgrounds play important roles on our campus, as educators on…
Happy President’s Day!
Did you know that in the 295 years that Old North has been around, we’ve been visited by multiple presidents of the…
Late in the evening of April 18th, 1775, two lights briefly appeared from the steeple of the Old North Church. Across the Charles River,…
By Catherine Matthews
Twenty-two years before he wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow penned an article for the July 1838…
NARCITY named the crypt at Old North Church & Historic Site to its list of 11 Secret Places in Boston You Never Knew Existed. We…
Unbeknownst to many, the Old North Church houses in its basement a crypt containing approximately 1,100 burials. From 1732 to 1860 the church…
By Bernard Trubowitz
138 years ago, on October 20th, 1878, North Enders awoke to a neighborhood full of familiar, unchanging edifices in an…