Confiscated from a Tory named Isaac Royall who fled to England, this estate—which included what were probably the largest slave quarters in Massachusetts—housed some of Washington’s top officers and was visited by the man himself.

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.

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.

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

Washington dropped in on this pub built in 1780 during an October 1789 visit that was part of the relatively new president's tour of the relatively young nation.

This Harvard building was Washington's first headquarters during the Siege of Boston. He and his staff occupied it for a couple of weeks in early July 1775.

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

The house of the first governor of Massachusetts under the state's constitution was unceremoniously demolished in 1863. (It’s pictured here in around 1860.)

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

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

Washington worshiped here on October 25, 1789, during that presidential tour.

This version of Trinity Church burned down in the great fire that swept downtown Boston in 1872.