In late July 1775, Washington established his headquarters for the siege at this house, which John Vassall, a British loyalist, owned.

Martha Washington joined the general here in December 1775.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made the house his home in the next century, hence its name.

It’s a myth that Washington took command under the Common’s so-called Washington Elm (the original tree associated with the myth died in the 1920s anyway).

But he did train troops on the Common. And there are reminders of that fact in the form of a trio of cannons seized from the British still on display there.

Washington’s army used this Episcopalian church as a barracks during the siege, but Martha Washington requested a service be held here on New Year’s Eve 1775.

The general was in attendance.

This park sports not only clear vestiges of the oldest surviving fortification from the Revolutionary War, but five life-size, painted-steel silhouettes, including of four Continental Army troops.

Located at 30 Beacon Street, the house of the first governor of Massachusetts under the state’s constitution was unceremoniously demolished in 1863.

Seventy-four years earlier, in October 1789, it (and Gov. Hancock) hosted George Washington.

Washington dropped in on this now-238-year-old pub during an October 1789 visit that was part of the relatively new president’s tour of the relatively young nation.

Washington worshiped here on October 25, 1789, during a presidential tour of the nation.

The Trinity Church that was on this approximate spot burned down in the great fire that swept downtown Boston in 1872.

Washington was the guest of honor at a banquet here on October 27, 1789.