Unlike some other American cities , Boston is comprised less of neighborhoods than it is made up of towns, most of which take their earliest roots from the arrival of a group of explorers around A railroad depot constructed in — now the Regina Pizzeria near the intersection of Harvard Ave and Cambridge Street — split Allston and Brighton into two sections.
Prior to the split, the area was known just as Brighton. Bill Damon. The name was changed to Arlington in after Arlington National Cemetery. The Braintree area was originally named Mount Wollaston after Captain Richard Wollaston, who first colonized the area in In , the area was incorporated as the town of Braintree, named after the English town of the same name.
John Phelan. Jeffrey Zeldman. When Boston was first discovered by colonists and established, the area now known as Back Bay was, literally, a bay. Even after being converted from bay to land, the area retained the Back Bay moniker. Bay Village was once an area of mudflats created by Back Bay tides, but that changed in after the city authorized the construction of a dam.
Once the area was properly drained, the land became suitable for the construction of houses. Ryan Harvey. A beacon was erected on one of those hills to warn its residents of approaching enemies, and so those in the area began referring to it as Beacon Hill.
Payton Chung. What is now the Town of Brookline was once a part of Boston, but it broke away in It was at that point the town was renamed Brookline, supposedly after a farm once owned by Judge Samuel Sewall, most famous for being a key player in the Salem Witch Trials.
Now home to Harvard, Cambridge was originally founded in under the decidedly unoriginal name of Newtowne. The hope was to provide a good omen for Harvard, which had been founded in The area that now houses Charlestown was one of the first established European communities in the U.
John Smith was among the men who first explored the area, and when he returned to England with a map, Prince Charles later King Charles I renamed the river after himself.
The town adopted His Highness's name because of its proximity to the river. David Wilson. Soe Lin. The first Chinese in the area were laborers brought in to end a strike against the Sampson Shoe Factory, and throughout the s and s, more Chinese laborers came to the city to aid construction.
Dorchester was one of the first areas settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, taking its name from the English town with the same name. By the s, clubs like Rathskeller, which strongly influenced the development of punk in the s through s, had a established a presence in Kenmore Square. Bartone saw changes continue in Kenmore Square until he graduated BU in Bartone said that although the vibe in the square has changed over time, it has remained relevant to innovation.
BU executive vice president Joseph Mercurio led the way with several university development plans, including the building of the Hotel Commonwealth, a European-style luxury hotel in the square that broke ground in Riley said the university is a limited partner of Great Bay Holdings, the developer that built the Hotel Commonwealth.
BU sold several properties for the construction of the hotel to go forward and maintains a relationship with the hotel. In March , The Boston Globe reported that the project was 10 months behind schedule.
Construction for the design, which includes extensive surface renovations, a glass canopy and station improvements continues. Nearly years of history dwarf MBTA delays by centuries.
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While it was too far from Kenmore Square for our tour to walk, we had seen a similar Erikson reference in Cambridge. So did Erikson take an exploratory trip to Massachusetts in the year ? Absolutely not! Erikson never even set foot in our state. What explains the statue then? Back in , a Harvard chemistry professor named Eben Norton Horsford erected the statue using his own money. Horsford claimed that the Vikings arrived to the United States way before the Pilgrims arrived, and he was obsessed with convincing others of this fact.
He built the statue to convince others! Apparently Horsford also wrote books and other articles about the Vikings in Massachusetts.
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