You won't find the Boston Women's Heritage Trail on any Boston map. This walk (or walks really) was the brainchild of a group of Boston teachers, librarians, and students. The walks meander through several Boston neighborhoods as testaments to the accomplishments of local women.
The booklet with maps that guides the walker is available at both National Park Service locations: Boston Common and 15 State Street. Although it costs $9.95 on the Common, the 80-page book is a worthy publication, for not only does it detail the walks, it includes a vast amount of Boston history, and lots of illustrations.
The walks are labeled and include: Downtown, North End, Beacon Hill, South Cove/Chinatown, and Back Bay. Several of the stops overlap those found on the Freedom and Black Heritage Trails, so if you plan to walk either of these, have the booklet with you before you start. The stops include private homes, public buildings that have changed use, and sites with various functions that are open to the public. The number of stops on each walk varies.
As an example, the North End Walk (12 stops) celebrates the diversity of our cultures, and visits, among other sites, the Paul and Rachel Revere House; the Mariners House where wives of sailors were provided a place to sell the items they made at home; and the birthplace of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Plaques commemorating North End women feature among those hanging in the Revere Mall. The North Bennet Street Industrial School was founded by a woman named Pauline Agassiz Shaw in 1881. It still holds an international reputation for training students in fine carpentry, violin making and restoration, and in making jewelry. This walk weaves around quite a bit, but stays in the North End. All the walks do much the same, overlapping at times with other walks.
The Beacon Hill Walk (17 stops) shares two sites with the Black Heritage Trail: the African Meeting House (some prominent abolitionists were women) and the Harriet and Lewis Hayden House where an escaped slave, Ellen Craft, lived for a time. Craft dressed like a man, pretending to be her own master, acting as if her own husband were her slave. Thusly disguised, the two of them labored against slavery. Elsewhere, the walk focuses on women writers and artists.
You can complete any of the walks within about one-and-a-half hours.
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