The Printing Office of Edes and Gill

History

On April 7, 1755, Edes and Gill became the proprietors of The Boston Gazette and Country Journal. According to the author of Infamous Scribblers (2006), the Boston Gazette, arguably the most influential newspaper the country has ever known, got us into the Revolutionary War, sped up the course of the war and may have even determined the outcome of the war. Fast forward to April 15, 2011, the colonial print shop opened its doors. Visitors have the opportunity to engage living historians working their printers trade in pre-revolutionary Boston. These same printers were at the vanguard of citizen angst over British governmental policies that Bostonians felt violated their rights as Englishmen. We offer unique personal encounters with history and colonial printing. As Boston's only colonial trade experience and only colonial living history interpretive experience, our historic equipment, live demonstrations, interpreters and historic settings enable new levels of understanding how coloni

Specialties

Witness Boston's only colonial printing experience with an 18th century printing press! Visitors engage with a historian and master printer who demonstrates the colonial printing process and shares how printers affected communities and sparked a revolution in America.