Description: Boston, the largest town in New England, and the capital of Massachusetts, is situated on a peninsula of an uneven surface, two miles long and about one miles wide, conneceted with the mainland, on the south, by a narrow neck about forty rods across.
Place Names: Boston, Cambridge, Roxbury, Lexington, Marblehead, Chelsea
ISO Topic Categories: inlandWaters, oceans, location
Keywords: Vicinity of Boston, political, physical, physical features, local jurisdictions, inlandWaters, oceans, location, Unknown,
Source: Marcius Willson, History of the United States (New York, NY: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Co., 1872) 74
Map Credit: Courtesy The Private Collection of Roy Winkelman |
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