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The Deaths of John Adams & Thomas Jefferson
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Daily park entrance pass, an annual park entrance pass, or a valid Interagency pass required. Daily entrance passes may be purchased in advance online at recreation.gov or at the park visitor center. Daily entrance passes cost $15 per adult (anyone aged 16 and old). Children aged 15 and younger are free. Annual park entrance passes may only be purchased online at recreation.gov.Location: LAT/LONG: 42.256177, -71.010696
This tour begins on the front porch of the Old House at Peace field, located at 135 Adams Street in Quincy, MA.
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Join the National Park Service for a special guided tour that chronicles the lattermost days, deaths, and legacies of two Founding Fathers, whose words and actions continue to echo from their departure to our present day. Learn about the facts of a day that sometimes proves that truth is stranger than fiction and understand how a young nation handled the passing of its founding era. The guided tour will take visitors through the Old House at Peace field, where John Adams was living at the time of his death, and the Stone Library. This tour is 45 minutes in length and does NOT include the Adams Farm at Penn’s Hill (the John Adams and John Quincy Adams Birthplaces). Self-guided tours of the Adams Farm at Penn's Hill are also available and do not require reservations.
Reservation or Registration: Yes
Image Gallery
John Adams by Jane Stuart, 1824 (NPS), and Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Sully, 1821 (US Department of