The belfry-tower of the old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely, and spectral, and sombre, and still. And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height, ...

A local legend in his own lifetime, he became a national folk hero with the publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1861 poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." ...

Two lanterns hung from its steeple that night, which “Paul Revere’s Ride” poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow noted in his 1860 poem, writing “one if by land, and two if by sea.” With the ...