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3 unusual facts about Boston Harbor


Boston Harbor

The harbor is sheltered from Massachusetts Bay and the open Atlantic Ocean by a combination of the Winthrop Peninsula and Deer Island to the north, the hooked Nantasket Peninsula and Point Allerton to the south, and the harbor islands in the middle.

Dorchesterway

Olmsted wanted the Emerald Necklace to continue via the Dorchesterway to the shore of Boston Harbor’s Dorchester Bay and thus form a "U" shape.

The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775

The foreground is littered with bodies from both sides of the conflict, and the background includes clusters of colonial and British troops carrying flags; Boston Harbor is also visible in the distance, although the sky is partially obscured by smoke (which rose from Charlestown, which had been torched by the British).


Avondale House

The American Room is dedicated to Admiral Charles Stewart (1778-1869), Parnell's American grandfather who commanded the USS Constitution (now moored in Boston Harbor) during the War of 1812.

Charles Joughin

According to his obituary he was also on board the SS Oregon when it sank in Boston Harbor.

Donna Barton Brothers

Of her 1130 wins, the biggest was the 1996 Grade 3 Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes, aboard Boston Harbor, trained by D. Wayne Lukas.

First Night

Live coverage of the final part of Boston's First Night, including the countdown to midnight and fireworks over Boston Harbor that begin at the stroke of midnight, is broadcast by WBZ-TV.

Isaac Royall House

Among the historic objects on display is a tea box, said to be from the same batch that was dumped into Boston Harbor on the night of December 16, 1773 and a very small painting by John Singleton Copley of Isaac Royall, Jr. on copper.

Monkhouse Davison

In 1774, chests of tea from the company were amongst those thrown into Boston Harbour during the Boston Tea Party which started the American Revolution.

Richard the Second

Farrell used Fort Strong, an abandoned post American Civil War-era fort on Long Island (an island in Boston Harbor), as the location for this production.


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4th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery

They encamped on Gallops Island in Boston Harbor, where they organized and were mustered in during latter part of August and into the first days of September 1864.

Boston Tea Party

When the tea ship Dartmouth arrived in the Boston Harbor in late November, Whig leader Samuel Adams called for a mass meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall on November 29, 1773.

George Rumford Baldwin

In his fourteenth year he made some sketches of the fortifications of Boston harbor in the war of 1812, of which his brother Loammi Baldwin, Jr. was the chief engineer.

New England cottontail

Smaller populations exist in southern New Hampshire, Nantucket island, a part of Massachusetts near the Quabbin Reservoir, and some Boston Harbor Islands.

Noddle

William Noddle, who settled on Noddle's Island (one of Boston Harbor Islands off East Boston, Massachusetts, USA) in 1629

TWT

Ted Williams Tunnel, a tunnel under Boston Harbor in Boston, Massachusetts