Here in North Square lived Paul Revere and his wife Rachel Revere for whom this overlook is named Here lived Major Pitcairn of the soldiery occupying Boston in 1775 Governor Thomas Hutchinson Sir Harry Frankland William Clark The alarm that British troops were marching to Concord to seize patriot stores was given by Paul Revere Many men on North Square and its neighborhood joined the Boston Tea Party at Griffin's Wharf and threw the tea overboard This public open space built and this tablet erected by the Boston Park Commission Erected August 1946 Hon. James M. Curley, Mayor of Boston William P. Long, Chairman, The Park Commission Theodore G. Hafenreffer Frank R. Kelly Park Commissioners