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Benjamin Franklin Statue/Boston Latin School
Benjamin Franklin Statue/Boston Latin School Review
This stop on the Freedom Trail commemorates the famous revolutionary and inventor. His likeness also marks the original location of Boston Latin School, the country's oldest public school, which still molds young minds, albeit from the Fenway neighborhood, today. Franklin attended Boston Latin with three other signers of the Declaration of Independence—Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine—but he has the dubious distinction of being the only one of the four not to graduate.
- Address: School St. at City Hall Ave., Downtown B, Boston, MA, 02108 | Map It
- Phone: 617/357-8300
- Website: www.thefreedomtrail.org/visitor/boston-latin.html
- Metro Park.
- Location: Downtown Boston
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