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Governor Winthrop granted a charter on March 13, 1638, [9] and on the first Monday in June following, an election of officers was held on Boston Common. The original name of the company was "The Military Company of Massachusetts". It began to be referred to as "The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company" in the year 1737.
The Boston Common is a public park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.It is the oldest city park in the United States. [4] Boston Common consists of 50 acres (20 ha) of land bounded by five major Boston streets: Tremont Street, Park Street, Beacon Street, Charles Street, and Boylston Street.
Among the organizers of the Boston company was the philanthropist Andrew Carney, who was then a partner in a clothing firm that supplied the U.S. Navy with uniforms. [5] Thus the Montgomery Guards of Boston were provided with custom-designed green uniforms with scarlet facings and gold trim, and caps bearing their own company emblem: an ...
This diagram shows the original dimension of the Shawmut Peninsula. The gray areas marked with the words "New Boston" are the product of the period of land reclamation that began in 1803, coinciding with the first of the many commodity booms experienced by the city. The area marked Boston Common corresponds to Blaxton's original property.
In April 1775, colonial forces barricaded Boston Neck in the Siege of Boston, including the Common and the Liberty Tree. Only British troops and a small number of Loyalist merchants remained on the Neck, and sometime between August 28 and 31, [ 9 ] a party of Loyalists led by Nathaniel Coffin Jr. [ 10 ] or by Job Williams cut down the tree and ...
Boston Common is an American television sitcom created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick that aired on NBC from March 21, 1996 to April 28, 1997. In its first season, it ranked 8th for the year, with a 15.6 household rating, but with a move to Sundays in its second season, it dropped to 52nd place.
The R. H. Stearns Building is an 11-story residence building (with shops at ground level) at 140 Tremont Street in Boston.It was built in 1909 for the businessman R. H. Stearns and his company and was the home of the R. H. Stearns and Company department store [2] until the company's demise in 1977.
Appleton was one of the great financial minds behind the early industrialization of New England, funding the Boston Manufacturing Company and developing a strategy for selling its products. He parlayed this early success into the later development of major industrial complexes at Lowell and Lawrence, Massachusetts , and also Manchester, New ...