Table of Contents Old as the Hills 4 Famous Bostonians 10 The Freedom Trail 14 Year-Round Playground 18 Sports in the City 22 Delicious Diversity 26 Timeline 29 Glossary 30 Index 31 Show What You Know 31 Boston Facts Founded 1630 Land area 48 28 square miles 77 7 square kilometers Elevation 141 feet 43 meters Previous name Trimountaine Population 655,884 Average Daytime Temperatures winter 42 degrees Fahrenheit 5 6 degrees Celsius spring 67 degrees Fahrenheit 19 4 degrees Celsius summer 82 degrees Fahrenheit 27 8 degrees Celsius fall 73 degrees Fahrenheit 22 8 degrees Celsius Ethnic Diversity White non-Hispanic 53 9 Black African-American 24 4 American Indian Alaska Native 0 4 Asian 8 9 Hispanic Latino 17 5 City Nickname Beantown Websites to Visit 31 Number of Annual Visitors 16,250,000 About the Author 32 NH VT NY Boston MA RI CT Massachusetts Boston United States
Old as the Hills Boston the capital of Massachusetts is one of the oldest cities in the United States It was founded in 1630 Its history includes a lot of notable firsts for the nation Boston is located in the northeastern United States on Massachusetts Bay part of the Atlantic Ocean 4
The Tremont Street Subway was at the center of the first subway line in Boston It’s now a historical landmark America’s first subway system was built in Boston It opened in 1897 The city’s streets were bustling with traffic even back then The subway was designed to remove the streetcar lines from the streets and make way for cars Many tunnels had flying junctions in them or ways to safely have more than one train pass through 5
