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Chart of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay with Map of Adjacent Country. E. P. Dutton. 1867. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. A good map of roads and rail lines in and around Boston. Downst, Henry P. (1916). Random Notes of Boston. Humphrey Publishing. Harris, Patricia & Lyon, David (1999). Boston. Oakland, California: Compass ...
John Bonner's map of Boston published. [2] [14] Population: 10,567. ... The Boston Bruins professional ice hockey team is founded, one of the NHL's Original Six teams ...
This diagram shows the original dimension of the Shawmut Peninsula. The gray areas marked with the words "New Boston" are all land reclaimed during the 19th century. Map of Shawmut Peninsula from 1775 showing tactical positions from the perspective of the British Army. Shawmut Peninsula is the promontory of land on which Boston, Massachusetts was
Boston was the center of revolutionary activity in the decade before 1775, with Massachusetts natives Samuel Adams, John Adams, and John Hancock as leaders who would become important in the revolution. Boston had been under military occupation since 1768. When customs officials were attacked by mobs, two regiments of British regulars arrived.
The center manages the geographic collections of the Boston Public Library as well as material collected by Norman B. Leventhal during his lifetime, known as the Mapping Boston Collection. Its holdings stretch chronologically from the 15th century to the present, and geographically cover the world, with a focus on Boston and New England.
The entire shoreline surrounding the original land mass of Boston has been repeatedly filled in and modified, starting in the early 17th century, through a process known as wharfing out. The A Once and Future Shoreline artwork presents one section of that pre-colonial shoreline to the public in an actively used downtown location.
Boston's many firsts include the United States' first public park (Boston Common, 1634), [17] the first public school (Boston Latin School, 1635), [18] and the first subway system (Tremont Street subway, 1897). [19] Boston has emerged as a global leader in higher education and research [20] and the largest biotechnology hub in the world. [21]