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47 North End azine editor Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879), who campaigned for the creation of the Thanksgiv- ing holiday, wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb , and raised funds to complete the Bunker Hill Monu- ment (see no. 4). Continue north along Garden Court Street to find the birthplace of Rose Kennedy (1890–1995) at number 4 (see no. 15). Thereaf- ter rejoin Hanover Street, where a large brick building at 332 oc- cupies the site of Boston’s first Universalist church, where pro- gressive ideas on gender equal- ity were preached as early as 1800. Farther along at 401 is St. Stephen’s Church, where Rose Kennedy was christened. On the left-hand wall of Paul Revere Mall opposite are plaques to further important North End women, in- cluding self-taught doctor Harriot Keziah Hunt (1805–1875) and suc- cessful actress Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876). Farther west at 18 Hull Street is the former home of the Paul Revere Pottery founded in 1909 to provide work for Jewish and Italian women. From there head south down Salem Street to Baldwin Place, where a faded Star of David recalls the Hebrew Industrial School for Girls es- tablished in 1899 by Jewish philanthropist, Lina Hecht (1848–1920). The walk finishes back on Hanover Street at St. Leonard’s Church, restored in 1988 thanks to a fundraising project in which local women were prominent (see no. 17). The Boston Women’s Heritage Trail website (www.bwht.org ) details walks in a dozen other neighbourhoods. One of them includes the Boston Women’s Memorial (2003) on Commonwealth Mall (Back Bay), which features Abigail Adams, suffragist Lucy Stone (1818–1893), and the first published African-American woman, Phillis Wheatley (see no. 48). Other locations nearby: 15, 16, 17, 33 The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway