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Seller: PatriotTours
(Patriot Tours, Inc.)
Seller Description:
Patriot Tours, Inc. specializes in daily historic tours that focus on specific eras of New York City's past. We have been conducting tours since Spring, 2005. Meticulous research is done for all of our tours. Every event is true and every person is real. Stories are taken from newspaper and eyewitness accounts, as well as historic texts. Our research is ongoing so that we may continue to refine and improve our tours.
(Our guides are licensed by the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs and have passed the required Sightseeing Guide Exam.)
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Activity Information:
Activity Description
Walk through historic lower Manhattan with us. Our guide will weave a vivid and compelling tale of NYC life in the 1770s.
NYC's ONLY Daily Revolutionary Era Walking Tour!
- Learn about NYC's Dutch beginnings and about its strategic significance in 1776.
- Hear about the feuding factions and political intrigues that pit neighbor against neighbor, patriot against loyalist.
- Listen to stories about real people, like the Sons of Liberty, and what one of their leaders did to become a local hero.
- Meet the Wicked Triumverate, the Odious Six, and the newspaper publishers who fanned the flames on both sides
Along the way we'll visit these historic landmarks: St. Paul's Chapel, John Street Methodist Church, Federal Hall National Monument, Trinity Church, Bowling Green, Fraunces Tavern and Battery Park.
As we walk, we'll pause along the route, taking time to imagine the city as it was in the 1770s, bustling with commerce and filled with the sounds and smells of different cultures. We’ll talk about some of the larger than life New Yorkers and how the things they did then laid the foundation for the kind of city we have today. And we won't forget the British officers and the colonial agents who spied on them!
To bring it all to life you’ll see samples of newspapers and broadsides and pictures depicting the places and events we’ll discuss.
Meeting Location:
Downtown - Near City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge (New York, NY)
(Exact meeting location details will be provided immediately upon purchase of tickets.)
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