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Boston grew rapidly and became wealthy as the primary port for ships bound to Britain and the West Indies from the colonies.
The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and several of the early battles of the revolutionary war (such as the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston) occurred near the city.
Boston is bordered by the cities of Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, and Quincy, and the towns of Winthrop, Brookline, Needham, Dedham, Canton, and Milton.
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 ipedia.com: Boston, Massachusetts Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Alternate meanings: Boston Boston is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts in the United States.
Founded in 1630 on a peninsula called "Shawmut" by the Native Americans who lived there, Boston is named after Boston, England, the town in Lincolnshire from which the Pilgrim Fathers originated.
Much of the downtown area and most of the Back Bay is built on landfill from the a number of nearby hills and from gravel shipped in from surrounding towns during the nineteenth century.
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