Grapefruit League- Jet Blue Park- Boston Red Sox

HEARING AN UMPIRE CALL “PLAY BALL!” IS NOTHING NEW IN FLORIDA. MAJOR LEAGUE SPRING TRAINING BEGAN HERE IN 1888, WHEN THE WASHINGTON STATESMEN

(LATER THE WASHINGTON SENATORS) VISITED JACKSONVILLE TO PLAY A SERIES OF PRE-SEASON EXHIBITION GAMES.

FLORIDA BECAME A ...

National Historic Landmark-Boston Post Road Historic District

National Historic Landmark-Boston Post Road Historic District

This unusually quiet, undeveloped area along the old Boston Post Road contains three architecturally significant houses as well as the Jay family cemetery and a conservation area along the shore of Long Island ...

National Historic Landmark-Boston Ave Methodist Episcopal

National Historic Landmark- Boston Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church

The Boston Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church is architecturally significant in four areas.

First, it is an outstanding example of the Art Deco style; second, it exemplifies the period's trend toward the application of ...

Boston Massacre Site

The Boston Massacre is a momentous and dramatic event that took place on the evening of March 5, 1770, just prior to the official start of the American Revolution. The standoff between a frustrated mob of Bostonians and a group ...

Power System of Boston’s Rapid Transit

IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing

Power System of Boston’s Rapid Transit, 1889

Boston was the first city to build electric traction for a large-scale rapid transit system. The engineering challenge to design and construct safe, economically viable, and reliable electric ...

Boston Mills Road Bridge

An 1834 survey map provides the earliest evidence of a bridge crossing the Cuyahoga River at this site. This rendering, based on a 1890's postcard, shows a covered bridge connecting the Akron-Cleveland Road (now Riverview Road) to the village of ...

Victims of the Boston Massacre

The remains of

Samuel Gray

Samuel Maverick

James Caldwell

Crispus Attucks

and

Patrick Carr

Victims of the Boston Massacre,

March 5th, 1770,

were here interred by order of the

Town of Boston.

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Here also lies buried the body of

Christopher Snider

Aged 12 years,

Killed February 22nd, 1770

The innocent victim of the

struggles between the ...

Boston Common

Founded 1634

The Common

an Historic Overview

In 1634, only four years after John Winthrop and the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled the Shawmut Peninsula and created the town of Boston, these colonists bought a 48-acre tract of land on the ...

National Historic Landmark - Boston Common

Founded 1634

Neighborhood of Revolution

“Paul Revere . . . started on a ride which, in a way has never ended.” - Esther Forbes, author of the classic study, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

In the course of just two ...

Life and Death in Colonial Boston

Along the second row parallel to the front path are the stones of the three “Rebeccas”: Rebecca (Baker) Gerrish (d. 1743), Rebecca Smith Sanders (d. 1745/6), and Rebecca (Smith) Alexander Deal Sprague (ca. 1704-1746), who were related to each other ...