Boston City

Boston is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts, one of the oldest cities in the United States, and the unofficial “Capital of New England”.
Boston is also the center of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people.
I spent there three weeks visiting my Asian girlfriend studying there, and I have to say that definitely is a nice city full of young students, nice place for living.

Boston was founded on A.D. 1630, by Puritan colonists from England.
The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony are sometimes confused with the Pilgrims, who founded Plymouth Colony ten years earlier in what is today Bristol County, Plymouth County, and Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

In the 1770s, British attempts to exert more stringent control on the colonies that led to the American Revolution. The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and several early battles including the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. After the Revolution, Boston had become one of the world’s wealthiest international trading ports because of the city’s consolidated seafaring tradition.

In the 1820s, Boston’s population began to swell, and the city’s ethnic composition changed. Irish immigrants dominated the first wave of newcomers during this period, in the latter half of the century, the city saw increasing numbers of Irish, Germans, Lebanese, Syrians, French Canadians, Russian and Polish Jews.
Until the early 1900s, Boston remained one of the nation’s largest manufacturing centers. A network of small rivers bordering the city and connecting it to the surrounding region made for easy shipment of goods and led to a proliferation of mills and factories.
Boston flourished culturally and it became renowned for its literary culture and lavish artistic patronage.
It also became a center of the abolitionist movement.

By the 1970s, the city’s economy boomed after 30 years of economic downturn. Boston now has the second largest skyline in the Northeast (after New York). Schools attract students to the area. In the early 21st century, the city has become an intellectual, technological, and political center.
Living expenses have risen, and Boston has one of the highest costs of living in the United States.
The city was the first public school and the first subway system in the United States.

Posted on July 1, 2010

Print PDF

RELATED PHOTO GALLERY AND POST

• Boston’s beach

  I went to Boston’s Orient Heights beach, with my Asian girlfriend to spend the afternoon there, there was a nice sunny weather but with a really cold breeze.     We spent nice moments there, she was looking for some nice shell to be collected and I was taking a look around. I loved that [...]...

• Boston’s public park at Beacon Hill

  Beacon Hill is a historic neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts that along with neighboring Back Bay is home to about 26,000 people. Today, Beacon Hill is regarded as one of the most desirable and expensive neighborhoods in Boston.     The Beacon Hill area is located just north of the Boston Common and the Boston Public [...]...

• Boston’s Marathon 2010

  The Boston Marathon was originally a local event, but its fame and status have attracted runners from all over the world. For most of its history, the Boston Marathon was a free event, and the only prize awarded for winning the race was a wreath woven from laurel branches. However, corporate-sponsored cash prizes began to [...]...

• Boston’s Granary burying ground

  Founded in 1660, located on Tremont Street, the Granary Burying Ground of Boston is the third-oldest cemetery. It is the final resting place for many notable class Revolutionary War-era patriots, including three signers of the Declaration of Independence and the five victims of the Boston Massacre. The need for the site arose because the land [...]...

• Boston’s whales watching

  Whale watching is the practice of observing whales and other cetaceans in their natural habitat and I was very curios and interested in this experience. I just could not miss the change to see whales nearby Boston coast. It was my first experience of that kind, and despite the strong light, the wrong sun direction, [...]...