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South Boston (colloquially Southie) is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. It has undergone several demographic transformations since being annexed to the city of Boston in 1804.
The Fort Point Channel Historic District is an historic district located along Congress, Summer and A streets in South Boston on the south side of Fort Point Channel.. The district includes the Boston Children's Museum (pictured, right), located in a renovated 19th-century brick industrial building, and the Boston Fire Museum, housed in the 1891 Congress Street Fire Station.
The South End District is a historic district encompassing a portion of the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.It is bounded roughly by the Southwest Corridor Park on the northwest, the Massachusetts Turnpike to the north, Herald Street to the east, AlbanyStreet to the south east, and Massachusetts Avenue to the southwest.
The South Boston Waterfront area is part of the Port of Boston on Boston Harbor. In September 2010, the Seaport Square project was under planning. It was expected to cost $3 billion and replace parking lots between the federal courthouse and convention center with a 6,300,000-square-foot (590,000 m 2 ) mixed-use development.
Southeastern Massachusetts is a region of Massachusetts located south of Boston and east of Rhode Island. It is commonly used to describe areas with cultural ties to both Boston and Providence, Rhode Island , and includes the cities of New Bedford and Fall River and their respective suburbs.
The southern part of the city of Boston is the location of 186 of these properties and districts, including 13 National Historic Landmarks. Two historic districts overlap into both northern and southern Boston: milestones that make up the 1767 Milestones are found in both areas, and the Olmsted Park System extends through much of the city.
1775 British map showing Fort Hill in the right-center 1842 map showing the location of Fort Hill (item 15, in the southeast of downtown) Removal of Fort Hill, Boston, 1869. Fort Point is a neighborhood or district of Boston, Massachusetts, and where a fort stood which guarded the city in colonial times.
Congress Street in Boston, Massachusetts, is located in the Financial District and South Boston. It was first named in 1800. It was first named in 1800. It was extended in 1854 (from State Street ) as far as Atlantic Avenue , and in 1874 across Fort Point Channel into South Boston.