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The Greater Boston region has played a powerful scientific, commercial, and cultural role in the history of the United States. Before the American Civil War , the region was a center for the abolitionist , temperance , [ 7 ] and transcendentalist [ 8 ] movements. [ 9 ]
The public Boston Museum of Natural History (founded in 1830 and renamed the New England Museum of Natural History in 1864, and the Boston Museum of Science in the mid-twentieth century), was run by the Boston Society of Natural History. It served the function of public and professional education in natural history, including ocean life ...
Boston African American National Historic Site: October 10, 1980: Boston The Park Service operates two buildings (the African Meeting House and the Abiel Smith School) of 15 locations that comprise this site. All of the site's locations are linked by the Black Heritage Trail, although only a few are open to the public. 2: Boston National ...
The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest in New England and the eleventh-largest in the country. [10] [11] [12] Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritan settlers.
New England Museum of Natural History, corner of Boylston and Berkeley Streets, Back Bay, Boston, 19th century Boston Society of Natural History and Rogers Building, Photographie Faneuil Hall in 1830. 1830 Boston Society of Natural History established. July 24: Boston Evening Transcript begins publication. Population: 61,392. 1831
Plymouth (/ ˈ p l ɪ m ə θ / ⓘ PLIM-əth; historically also spelled as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town and county seat of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as "America's Hometown".
Statue of Deborah Sampson. The Town of Sharon was first settled as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 and was deemed the 2nd precinct of Stoughton in 1740. It was established as the district of Stoughtonham on June 21, 1765, incorporated as the Town of Stoughtonham on August 23, 1775, and was named Sharon on February 25, 1783, after Israel's Sharon plain, due to its high level of ...
Salem (/ ˈ s eɪ l ə m / SAY-ləm) is a historic coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located on the North Shore of Greater Boston. Continuous settlement by Europeans began in 1626 with English colonists. Salem was one of the most significant seaports trading commodities in early American history.