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Built on the site of a building originally donated by Huguenot merchant Peter Faneuil to the city of Boston, this iconic market building and meeting house was built in the 1760s and expanded in the 19th century by architect Charles Bulfinch. It was the site of many public meetings during the American Revolution. 19: Fenway Studios: Fenway Studios
The shoreline and topography of Boston, Massachusetts, as it was from 1630–1675, overlaid on an 1880 street map. The public plaza the artwork is located on was historically one of the first Boston Harbor landing places, named Town Dock.
This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts.. Samuel Lincoln House, Hingham, built on land purchased 1649 by Samuel Lincoln, ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln Stephen Phillips House is over 200 years old and is located in the Chestnut Street District, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.
A map from the 1770s of the city of Boston and its harbor. The dotted features are mudflats and salt marshes that were exposed at low tide and unnavigable even at high tide. Prior to European colonization the region around modern-day Boston was inhabited by the Indigenous Massachusett people.
Map depicting tribal distribution in southern New England, c. 1600; the political boundaries shown are modern Before the arrival of European colonists on the eastern shore of New England, the area around Massachusetts Bay was the territory of several Algonquian-speaking peoples, including the Massachusetts, Nausets, and Wampanoags.
The Boston Harbor Association; NOAA Soundings Map of Boston Harbor; Flickr.com, Photos, January 2009. Flickr.com, Photos, November 2009. Flickr.com, Photos, February 2010. Dutton, E.P. Chart of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay with Map of Adjacent Country. Archived May 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Published 1867. A good map of a proposed ...
Part of the Greater Boston region, it is located on the South Shore of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,284. [5] Hingham is known for its colonial history and location on Boston Harbor. The town was named after Hingham, Norfolk, England, [6] and was first settled by English colonists in 1633.
It is an excellent example of early New England colonial architecture. White–Ellery House: Gloucester: 1710 Affirmed traditional date in survey carried out around 2012. [citation needed] Choate-Caldwell House: Ipswich: 1710 House is on display in Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The oldest rear portion of the house dates to ...