Self-Guided Boston's Beacon Hill Underground Railroad Audio/Walking Tour

The journey, in full

You'll learn how the Underground operated and stop by the John J Smith House and you'll learn about his station on the Underground Railroad and the people he helped. After hearing more about Harriet Tubman's life the tour takes you to 83 Phillips Street, the former home of John Sweat Rock and his many firsts in history. You'll stop by the station master Lewis Hayden's home and hear the stories of how he bravely saved countless runaways at this home here in Beacon Hill. Once home to Leonard Grime, a conductor on the underground railroad. The Old Temperance Boarding House, a stop on the underground railroad. The old Phillips School was once here, this was the first integrated school in Boston and also had the first African American teacher to teach at an integrated school. The tour takes you past the historic Vilna Shul, the oldest immigrant synagogue in Boston, and tells the story of the Jewish Community that helped on the underground railroad. This was once the house of John Coburn and his gaming house. And as you guessed it, John was a station master. The tour stops by the abolitionist Charles Sumner's Birthplace.