Audio Tour: The Continental Army in Cambridge

Through this self-guided audio tour, explore the stories of the Continental Army encamped in Cambridge in the first months of the American Revolution.

This self-guided audio tour is also available on the free NPS app! You can download this tour ahead of your visit and listen along as you walk through Cambridge.

Total run time of all audio clips: 18 minutes, 37 seconds.

Download this tour and discover many more using the free NPS App!

How to find The Continental Army in Cambridge audio tour on the NPS App

1. Download the free NPS App from your preferred app store
2. Tap "Find a Park" and search "Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site"
3. Select "Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Massachusetts," which will take you to the park homepage on the App
4. Tap "Self-Guided Audio Tours"
5. Select "The Continental Army in Cambridge"

Learn More....

To learn more stories related to the Continental Army in Cambridge visit our landing page on George Washington's Cambridge Headquarters and view the resources used in this tour explore below.

• Bell, J.L. George Washington's Headquarters and Home, Cambridge, Massachusetts. National Park Service, 2012.
• Boston National Historical Park. Dorchester Heights.
• Boston National Historical Park. Siege of Boston Map.
• City of Cambridge. Cambridge Cemetery.
• Herndon, Ruth Wallis. Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
• History Cambridge. Fort Washington History Hub.
• Maycock, Susan E. and Charles M. Sullivan. Building Old Cambridge. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2016.
• Neal, Jeff. "Amid the Old Burying Ground." The Harvard Gazette. 28 October 2015.
• Quintal, George. Patriots of Color 'A Peculiar Beauty and Merit,' African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill. National Park Service, 2004. Online Resource.

Special thanks to the Boston Camerata and their artistic director Anne Azema for permission to use music from their 2019 album Free America! Songs of Resistance and Rebellion released by Harmonia Mundi for this walking tour.