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  2. Boston Harbor - Wikipedia

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    Boston Harbor. Coordinates: 42°20′30″N 70°57′58″W. Topographic map of Boston Harbor. USCGC James pulls into Harbor in August 2015. Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, located adjacent to Boston Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the Northeastern United States.

  3. Fort Independence (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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    Fort Independence is a granite bastion fort that provided harbor defenses for Boston, Massachusetts, located on Castle Island. Fort Independence is one of the oldest continuously fortified sites of English origin in the United States. [2][3] The first primitive fortification was called "The Castle", placed on the site in 1634.

  4. Harbor Defenses of Boston - Wikipedia

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    The Harbor Defenses of Boston was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. [ 1] It coordinated the coast defenses of Boston, Massachusetts from 1895 to 1950, beginning with the Endicott program. These included both coast artillery forts and underwater minefields. The command originated circa 1895 as the Boston ...

  5. History of Boston - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. A Once and Future Shoreline - Wikipedia

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    A Once and Future Shoreline is a permanent public artwork that graphically marks the edge of Boston Harbor, circa 1630, into the granite paving blocks of the plaza on the West side of the historic Faneuil Hall building. [1] The 850-foot-long artwork depicts the location of a pre-colonial shoreline by graphically etching silhouettes of materials ...

  7. Siege of Boston - Wikipedia

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    The Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. [5] In the siege, American patriot militia led by newly-installed Continental Army commander George Washington prevented the British Army, which was garrisoned in Boston, from moving by land. Both sides faced resource, supply, and ...

  8. Long Island (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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    Long Island is located in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The island is part of the City of Boston, [1][2] and of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. The island is 1.75 miles (2.82 km) long and covers 225 acres (0.9 km 2). Prior to October 2014, access to the island was via a road over a 4,175-foot (1,273 m) causeway [3] from the ...

  9. Massachusetts Bay Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the settlement were in southern New England, with initial ...