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Long Wharf is a historic American pier in Boston, Massachusetts, built between 1710 and 1721. It once extended from State Street nearly a half-mile into Boston Harbor ; today, the much-shortened wharf (due to land fill on the city end) functions as a dock for passenger ferries and sightseeing boats.
Traffic sign: Quayside or river bank ahead. Unprotected quayside or riverbank. A wharf commonly comprises a fixed platform, often on pilings.Commercial ports may have warehouses that serve as interim storage: where it is sufficient a single wharf with a single berth constructed along the land adjacent to the water is normally used; where there is a need for more capacity multiple wharves, or ...
1729 map of New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by C. Moll with inset describing the postal system. The Boston Post Road was a system of mail-delivery routes between New York City and Boston that evolved into the first major highways in the United States. Some routes followed trails in use by Native Americans long before ...
The Cook Islands became a protectorate of the United Kingdom, thus initiating a claim on the atolls of Manihiki, Penrhyn, Pukapuka, and Rakahanga. [270] Pacific Ocean: May 29, 1889 Washington Island was annexed by the United Kingdom; it appears the island was no longer claimed by the United States after this. [310] Pacific Ocean: June 3, 1889
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
In 2005, a 500-year-old map that identified the new world as “America” sold for a whopping $1 million at auction. These early maps, which are are prized for their historical significance and ...
British America collectively refers to various English and British colonies in the Americas prior to the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. The British monarchy of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland—later named the Kingdom of Great Britain, of the British Isles and Western Europe—governed many colonies in the Americas beginning in 1585.
Lewis Wharf appears in the center right of this 1852 map of Boston's North End. Lewis Wharf is a showpiece of waterfront urban renewal in Boston's historic North End.The granite structures on the wharf were built as an early 19th-century shopping mall in the era before railroads when water transport was the most efficient way to move commodities to marketplaces.