From those illustrious days, the marketplace has expanded to include more than 100 shops and restaurants. Some visitors caution that the items sold at Faneuil Hall Marketplace are a bit touristy.

In 1742, the same year his hall was inaugurated, one of his ships, the Jolly Batchelor, sailed from Boston to Sierra Leone, returning with 20 kidnapped Africans. Faneuil lived just long enough to ...

Your feedback on Faneuil Hall, canoe discoveries and teeny-tiny marmosets Smithsonian magazine What’s in a Name? I was disappointed to read of the renaming of Faneuil Hall (“The Long Hall ...

With Faneuil putting up the cash, how could Boston refuse? It took two years to build the structure--which not only had market facilities, but a large meeting hall on the second floor--and when it ...