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Museum of African American History - Boston Museums - Boston History
In 1638, just eight years after Boston’s founding, the first enslaved people of African descent arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony on the slave ship ...
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Boston History Walking Tours - Four Heritage and History Trails to ...
If you are interested in exploring Boston's rich history and seeing some of the area's important historic sites, you may enjoy taking one or all of these ...
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Harvard Museum of Natural History - Boston Museums
There are many ways in which the Harvard Museum of Natural History feels like something from another time—room after room is filled with cases displaying ...
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Battle of Bunker Hill - Boston History - American Revolutionary ...
The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the earliest major battles of the American Revolutionary War, fought on June 17, 1775.
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum - Boston Museums ...
Boston's John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum serves two purposes: to ... Museum of African American History, BostonHarvard Museum of Natural ...
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Boston Molasses Flood - North End History
The 1919 Molasses Flood in Boston's North End was one of the most bizarre and tragic events in Massachusetts history. A tidal wave of molasses swept through ...
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Old Ironsides - USS Constitution History - Visiting Old Ironsides ...
The USS Constitution was built at Edmond Hartt's shipyard in Boston and was launched on Oct. ... particularly those fascinated by U.S. and maritime history. ...
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The Dark Day - History and Explanation of a Strange Boston Event
The Dark Day refers to a bizarre event that happened on May 19, 1780. Around midday an unexplained darkness fell over Boston and much of New England making ...
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Fenway Park - History of Fenway Park, Home of the Boston Red Sox
If there’s one thing you can say about Boston it’s that it’sa town that appreciates baseball. Bostonians’ love of the Red Sox is only rivaled by their ...
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The Boston Christmas Tree
History of the Boston Christmas Tree: The relationship between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia goes back as far as the days of the colonies, but one specific ...
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