Boston, Massachusetts, USA (East, North, South) (Allston) (Readville) (Roslindale)
1895 - Boston

Boston, a city of the United States, capital of Massachusetts and of Suffolk co., on a bay called Boston Harbor, which forms the inner bight of Massachusetts Bay, at the mouth of the Charles and Mystic Rivers. Lat. 42° 21' 29.6" N.; lon. 71°3' 51" W. The original town stood upon a peninsula called by the Indians Shawmut, and by the settlers Tremont or Trimountain, from the three summits of a conspicuous hill, which, though now much reduced, is still prominent, and known as Beacon Hill. The city now includes the island of East Boston (Noddle's Island), and the peninsular suburbs of South Boston and Charlestown, besides the former towns of Dorchester, Roxbury (or Boston Highlands), West Roxbury, and Brighton, with their minor villages of Allston, Jamaica Plain, Neponset, Mattapan, &c. The cities of Quincy, Newton, Cambridge, Somervfile, and Chelsea are near suburbs, and there are many large towns (such as Milton, Dedham, Brookline, Watertown, and Everett) in close proximity. Great areas adjoining the original Shawmut have been reclaimed from the harbor and its in lets, so that what was originally the neck of the peninsula is now the widest part of it. These parts are now covered with substantial and costly buildings. Several large tracts of low ground have been elevated to perfect the system of sewers, the houses being raised at public expense. The city is the terminus of many railroads, of which the principal are the Old Colony, the New York & New England, the Boston & Albany, the Fitchburg, the Boston & Maine, and the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn, and in the outskirts runs the Grand Junction Railway, which connects most of these roads. Twenty-five bridges over navigable waters, besides the railway bridges, connect the city and suburbs, while East Boston and Chelsea are reached by steam ferries. Boston is one of the best built cities in the United States, and has strongly felt the recent spirit of architectural progress. The streets in the older portion, once singularly irregular in their course, have been somewhat straightened, at great expense, but are still far from the uniform regularity in many younger towns. Most of the principal streets are traversed by railways, which extend for many miles, connecting the suburban towns with Boston...

The population of Boston in 1790 was 18,320; in 1800, 34,937; in 1810,33,787; in 1820, 43,298; in 1830, 61,392; in 1840, 93,383; in 1850, 136,881; in 1860, 177,840; in 1870,250,526; in 1880, 362,839 (the gain having been in part due to the annexation of adjacent suburbs), and in 1890, 448,477.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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