Dutch & Colonial Era · 1624–1789
Colonial Lower Manhattan Walking Tour
Flows south to north — approx. 1.5 miles on foot
From the Dutch fort at the southern tip of Manhattan to the chapel where Washington prayed on inauguration morning — 10 stops through 300 years of history, on the exact streets where it happened.
- Battery Wall Remnants — touch 1755 British stonework
- Site of Fort Amsterdam — birthplace of New York City
- Bowling Green — where the King George statue fell
- Fraunces Tavern — Washington's farewell to his officers
- Federal Hall — the first inauguration of a US President
- Trinity Church — Hamilton's grave & the Sons of Liberty
- African Burial Ground — 10,000–20,000 buried here