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The North End is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. [ 1 ] It is the city's oldest residential community, having been inhabited since it was colonized in the 1630s. It is only 0.36 square miles (0.93 km 2), yet the neighborhood has nearly one hundred establishments and a variety of tourist attractions.
The Feast of St. Anthony is celebrated every year in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts on the weekend of the last Sunday in August. [1] The feast has been celebrated since 1919 when a group of Italians from Montefalcione settled in the North End of Boston. [2] They began a society called the Sant'Antonio Di Padova Montefalcione which ...
1890s – 1910s. [edit] The first wave of Italian immigration to Boston occurred in the late 19th century. In 1890, Boston's Italians numbered less than 5,000 and accounted for only 3% of Boston's foreign-born population. By 1897, that figure had risen to 11%, with 18,000 living in the North End alone. [ 1 ]
North Street, looking up from North Square, ca.1894. Ann Street was the main thoroughfare through the neighborhood. It ran from Faneuil Market, spanned an old drawbridge, and led into the rest of the Boston's North End, terminating at the wharves. On 4 December 1834, Ann Street was widened to connect Merchant's Row and Blackstone Street.
The culture of Boston, Massachusetts, shares many roots with greater New England, including a dialect of the Eastern New England accent popularly known as Boston English. [ 1 ] The city has its own unique slang, which has existed for many years. [ 2 ] Boston was, and is still, a major destination of Irish immigrants.
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Blaxton remained, moving five miles north to a 1 mi 2 rocky bulge at the end of a swampy isthmus surrounded on all sides by mudflats. Blaxton thus became the first colonist to settle in what would become Boston. He lived at the Western end of the Shawmut Peninsula at the foot of what is now Beacon Hill and was entirely alone for more than five ...
2 acres (0.81 ha) Built. 1659. NRHP reference No. 74000385 [1] Added to NRHP. April 18, 1974. Copp's Hill Burying Ground is a historic cemetery in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1659, it was originally named "North Burying Ground", and was the city's second cemetery.