The route of Paul Revere’s midnight ride from Boston to Lexington 250 years ago looks much different today. For starters, it’s easier to find a Dunkin’.

This stop on the Freedom Trail is the house where Paul Revere lived when he took his famous ride on April 18, 1775 — but it hadn’t been his house for long. The home was built in about 1680 by a ...

Conservator Corrine Long, of Dover, N.H., restores nearly 300-year-old painted angels on walls of Old North Church, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, in Boston. AP Photo/Steven Senne ...

It was that day, 250 years ago that Paul Revere and his cohort of riders waited for the signal, lamps set in the belfry of the Old North Church in Boston’s North End. “One if by land, and two ...