One If By Land, Two If By Sea is a candlelit dining establishment today, but it didn’t always have such a romantic past. It was once a silent movie theater, and before that, it served as Aaron Burr’s carriage house. In fact, there are replicas of Hamilton’s and Burr’s dueling pistols in the small dining room upstairs. The name, if you haven’t already guessed it, is a nod to Paul Revere, who famously instructed Robert Newman, the sexton of the North Church, to warn the community that the British were coming by using lanterns as signals: one indicated they were approaching by foot, and two, by boat.

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