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    The First Town-House in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, was located on the site of today's Old State House and served as Boston's first purpose-built...
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    Boston is a market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Boston is the administrative centre of...
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    neighboring towns. Boston's many firsts include the United States' first public park (Boston Common, 1634), the first public school (Boston Latin School...
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    The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of...
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    The Old State House, also known as the Old Provincial State House, is a historic building in Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1713. It was the seat of...
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    The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers...
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    Boston." Roxbury was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 before being annexed to Boston...
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    The Boston Brahmins, or Boston elite, are members of Boston's historic upper class. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, they were...
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    The Boston Post Road was a system of mail-delivery routes between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, that evolved into one of the first major highways...
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    Townhouse (redirect from Town house)
    A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of terraced housing. A modern townhouse is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors...
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    the Old State House and the Boston Custom House. In 1630, the first Puritan settlers, led by John Winthrop, built their earliest houses along what is...
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    Boston City Hall is the seat of city government of Boston, Massachusetts. It includes the offices of the mayor of Boston and the Boston City Council....
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  • the upcoming The Town: Ultimate Collector's Edition set, the AMC Loews Boston Common theater hosted an "exclusive engagement" of The Town (Take 2), wherein...
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    districts across the Commonwealth. The House of Representatives convenes at the Massachusetts State House in Boston, the state capital of Massachusetts....
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  • The Custom House in Boston, Massachusetts, was established in the 17th century and stood near the waterfront in several successive locations through the...
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    square miles (16 km2) in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated...
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    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts...
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    a historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is also the location of the Massachusetts State House. The term "Beacon Hill" is used...
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    almshouse (probably the first in the Thirteen Colonies). Boston Common took over from the gibbet outside the gate of Boston Neck as the town execution grounds...
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    location on Boston Harbor. The town was named after Hingham, Norfolk, England, and was first settled by English colonists in 1633. The town of Hingham...
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    South Boston, formerly Boyd's Ferry, is a town in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 8,142 at the 2010 census, down from 8,491...
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    Boston Manor House is an English Jacobean manor house built in 1622 with internal alterations, intensively restored in later centuries. It was the manor...
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    especially biotechnology startups. The many towns surrounding Boston became residential suburbs that now house the city's large population of white collar...
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    originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Charlestown became a city in 1848 and was annexed by Boston on January 5, 1874...
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    Hickling Prescott House, also known as the Headquarters House, is an historic house museum located at 55 Beacon Street on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts...
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  • Hezekiah Usher (category People from colonial Boston)
    English bookseller in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts Bay. He was the first known bookseller in colonial America and published the first book in the Thirteen...
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    for enlarging the meeting house in Town House Square for the first church in Salem. This document remains part of the town records at City Hall. He was...
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the...
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    (/ˈsɪtʃuɪt/ ) is a seacoast town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on the South Shore, midway between Boston and Plymouth. The population...
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    neighborhood of South Boston that began construction back in 2009. The phase two completion included high-efficiency affordable housing in town-house style and four-story...
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