Beacon Hill, Back Bay, and the Building of Boston's Golden Age

“Tells the story of Boston’s growth in the 19th century, a time of immense cultural and physical expansion in the city.” — The Patriot Ledger Venture back to the Boston of the 1800s, when Back Bay was just a wide expanse of water to the west of the Shawmut Peninsula and merchants peddled their wares to sailors along the docks. Witness the beginning of the American Industrial Revolution; learn how a series of cultural movements made Boston the focal point of abolitionism in America, with leaders