Cycling Through History

The Bike Route Vision

We are furthering knowledge about African-American and related history in Massachusetts, and opportunities for increased physical activity, wellness, adventure and local community involvement through bicycling. We are designing a network of bike routes that will guide individuals, families and groups on a multi-media journey through places showing the rich African-American history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Get Involved - We Need You

We need bicyclists, historians, mappers, public health advocates, fitness enthusiasts, people committed to developing good bike routes, people who are interested in local community African- American history, and tourism boosters. If you fit any of these categories and want to know more, contact us.

  • Discuss: Join our mailing list to add your voice to the discussion. do it here-->
  • Donate: We are raising money to fund school children, graduate students and professionals to do the work of putting our history online and organized around bicycling routes.do it here-->
  • Volunteer: Share your knowledge (instructions below), help with marketing and getting the word out, or do some data entry. These are just some of the ways you can support the effort.
  • Email us: cyclingthroughhistory@gmail.com with your interests, background, and contact information.

Share Your Knowledge

  • Contribute a story:. This will be a link to a page that has detailed instructions on how to use the web site to contribute text narrative and tag it with keywords and bike routes. Make sure to log in first.
  • Contribute an image: Start contributing images -- photographs, artwork, or other types of pictures of interest. Caption and tag it with keywords and suggest bike routes on which it can be seen. Make sure to log in first.
  • Contribute audio (coming soon!): This will be a link to a page that has detailed instructions on how to use the web site to contribute audio with a caption and tag it with keywords and bike routes.
  • Contribute a video (coming soon!): This will be a link to a page that has detailed instructions on how to use the web site to contribute videos with a caption and tag it with keywords and bike routes.