Where is Boston?

The historic heart of America "beats" on the eastern shore of the Atlantic Ocean, in Massachusetts. Much of Boston is built on mounded earth. The first settlers brought it from the nearby hills, struggling with the local swamps. Only two neighborhoods in the city, Back Bay and South Boston, stand on solid ground.

The city is very compact and covers only 232 square kilometers, of which 125 square kilometers is land. More than 600 thousand people live on this territory. In the Boston metropolitan area, the population is more than four million. The average age of residents is 27-28 years old.

Boston was founded on September 17, 1630. It got its name from its Lincolnshire namesake in Britain. Some famous settlers came from there, in particular, the first governor of the state, John Winthrop. The overseas origins of Bostonians are still reminded by their accent - as in East Anglia of the XVII century.

An important page in the history of the city, from which, in the words of Charles Dickens, the rest of America should take an example, is the struggle for the independence of the United States. The start of it, in fact, was given in 1770 "Boston Massacre", when British soldiers shot civilians who came out to protest against the tax policy of the metropolis. The troops then had to withdraw from the city.

In 1773, the famous "Boston Tea Party" took place in the city - the residents, dissatisfied with the law on new import duties, snuck onto the ships of the East India Company and dumped all the bales of tea into the bay. Another three years later, the Declaration of Independence was read publicly for the first time from the balcony of the Old State House.