Boston Women's Heritage Trail

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The North End Walk presents the lives of women from the variety of ethnic groups who have lived in the North End. Beginning with Yankee women active in support of the American Revolution, the walk continues with the activities of the Irish, Jewish, and Italian women who have made the North End their first home in Boston
    (Click on the site title to visit that location.)
N1: North End Union
A community organization formed to meet the needs of Irish, Jewish, and Italian immigrant families.
N2: Poto Family Grocery Store
The home and store of community activist Clementine Poto Langone.
N3: Home of Rachel and Paul Revere
Home of Paul Revere’s second wife and their many children.
N4: Mariners House
Boarding house for sailors run by the Seaman’s Aid Society.
N5: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Birthplace
Birthplace of the daughter and mother of Boston’s most prominent political families.
N6:
Old St. Stephen’s Church
The church attended by Rose Kennedy.
N7: Plaques to North End Women
Plaques to honor Ann Pollard, Dr. Harriet Keziah Hunt, and Charlotte Cushman.
N8: Paul Revere Pottery and Library Clubhouse
Site of the famous pottery that employed young Italian and Jewish women and girls.
N9: North Bennet Street School
A leading industrial school founded by Pauline Agassiz Shaw.
N10: Hebrew Industrial School
A needlework school founded to train young Jewish women.
N11: Universalist Meeting House
Site of church attended by writer and educator Judith Sargent Murray.
N12: St. Leonard’s Church
The first Roman Catholic Church founded by Italian Americans and later preserved by women.

Click here to take the Lower Roxbury Walk

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