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" Continue down Washington Street and you will be at the Old State House (1713). This was the center of civic life in Colonial Boston and was where folks like Sam Adams and James Otis would argue against the policies of the British Crown. On the front of the building is a balcony where in 1776 the Declaration of Independence was read for the first time and cause a mini -riot during which the Lion and Unicorn which sits on top of the Old State House was ripped down and burnt in a bomb fire. The gilded Lion and Unicorn was put back up on the Old State House in 1883 when the building was refurbished. Every July 4th at 10:00am the Declaration of Independence is read from that balcony. The Lion and Unicorn however is not torn down."
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