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Find the Women Who Walked Your Neighborhood!
Boston Women’s Heritage Trail has sponsored the development of six Student-Designed Tours, mini-trails in Boston neighborhoods blazed by teachers and students in the Boston Public Schools and a city charter school.

Teachers, use these mini-trails as examples to help students do the same in the neighborhood around their school. Please contact us if you would like support in developing a trail.

Student-designed Tours

Charlestown

Portrait of Sarah Josepha Hale

This walk was developed by fifth graders at the Harvard/Kent Elementary School in Charlestown in 2017. Site 1: Charlestown Navy Yard Rosie the Riveter is a salute to the thousands of women who worked at jobs vacated by men who were fighting in World War II. Rear Admiral Grace … [Read more...] about Charlestown

Dorchester

Upham's Corner Walk The Upham's Corner Walking Trail was developed by a class of young women at the Codman Academy Charter School during a 10-week course on Dorchester Women's History. Each Saturday, the students met and learned about local women's history through field trips, interviews with … [Read more...] about Dorchester

Lower Roxbury

Voyages of Women "Voyages of Women" is the second in a series of walks which have been developed under the auspices of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail by teachers and students in the Boston Public Schools. This walk was developed by six, seventh and eighth graders in a Friday morning club at the … [Read more...] about Lower Roxbury

Roxbury

Mary Eliza Mahoney

"Stepping Back": Roxbury Women's History Trail "Stepping Back" is the fourth in a series of walks which have been developed under the auspices of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail by teachers and students in the Boston Public Schools. This walk was developed by first and second graders in Mary … [Read more...] about Roxbury

South End

"The South End Women's Heritage Trail" is the first in a series of walks which have been developed under the auspices of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail by teachers and students in the Boston Public Schools. This walk was developed by third graders in Paul Thompson and Jan Wellman's class at the … [Read more...] about South End

West Roxbury

We Will Walk in Her Steps "We Will Walk in Her Steps" is the fifth in a series of walks which have been developed under the auspices of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail by teachers and students in the Boston Public Schools. This walk was developed by second graders in Vera Johnson's class at the … [Read more...] about West Roxbury

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BWHT celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Boston Women’s Memorial with this tribute.

Video courtesy of www.melodicvision.com.

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Seven self-guided walks through four centuries of Boston Women's History

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Since 1989, the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail (BWHT) has worked to restore women to their rightful place in the history of Boston and in the school curriculum by uncovering, chronicling, and disseminating information about the women who have made lasting contributions to the City of Boston.
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