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Boston (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 42 21 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 42.3500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 071 03 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -71.0500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on Charles river; site of key pre-Revolutionary War events, Boston Massacre 1770 & Boston Tea Party 1773; expanded with textile mills, shipbuilding & trade 18th-19th cen.; noted for Faneuil Hall (1742-1805) & Paul Revere House (1680). |
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| Boston (preferred,C,V,English-P)
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............ | named for town in Lincolnshire, England, from which many Puritans emigrated to America |
| Old Boston (C,V)
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| Shawmutt (C,V)
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| Shawnnut (C,V)
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| Totant (C,V)
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| Tremont (C,V)
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| Trimountain (C,V)
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| Beantown (C,V)
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| בוסטון (C,U,Hebrew )
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Boston (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled in 1630 by Puritan Englishmen of the Massachusetts Bay Company |
| city (C) |
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incorporated 1822 |
| state capital (C) |
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| county seat (C) |
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| seaport (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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| financial center (C) |
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| cultural center (C) |
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| educational center (C) |
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| tourist center (C) |
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| naval base (H) |
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British |
| capital (H) |
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of Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1632 until outbreak of Revolutionary War |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital of .... |
Massachusetts .......... (state) |
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(World, North and Central America, United States) [7007517] |
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