Boston African American National Historic Site
National Historic Site of the United States
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The Boston African American National Historic Site is in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It includes 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th-century African-American community, connected by the Black Heritage Trail. Among them are the 1806 African Meeting House, the oldest standing black church in the United States.
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