City · 1630
Boston
Boston was founded in 1630 and incorporated as a city in 1822. Boston400 follows four centuries of civic change across the city and its neighbors.
Why it matters
The protagonist. Every Boston400 page hangs off this canonical record on the road to the 2030 quadricentennial.
Open the full civic recordCurrent pulse, routes, recommendations, and memory
Turn this into a walk
Routes with a point of view
What should I see next?
Chosen moves from here
The editor's hand
Human recommendations
Civic memory
What this meant before
16301630Boston enters the civic record here.1770Boston Massacre (1770)On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of civilians, killing five people, including Crispus Attucks, near the Old State House.1773Boston Tea Party (1773)On December 16, 1773, after a mass meeting at Old South Meeting House, about 150 men went to Griffin's Wharf and destroyed 342 chests of imported tea.1775Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1775)On April 18-19, 1775, Paul Revere rode from Boston toward Lexington as part of an intelligence and alarm network warning of a British expedition.
- Established
- 1630
- Public connections
- 6
- Sources
- 3
In the public graph 6 typed relationships
Explore Boston in the interactive Graph Explorer →Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk
Historical context
Boston Tea Party (1773)Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1775)Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)Boston Massacre (1770)
An unexpected connection
Boston is linked, through the graph, to Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) — historical event, 23 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
Keep exploring graph-powered — every path below is a real relationship, not a guess
NearbyA few minutes’ walk away
From the colonial eraOf the same period
One identity, 4 editorial lenses one canonical entity URL
How we know graph confidence — we explain our certainty, not just assert it
✓Source qualityBest source is primary / institutional
✓Independent corroboration3 resolvable sources
✓Review stateReview attributed to durjoy-ace-local-history-editor
✓Institutional backingCites a primary or institutional source
✓Record completeness80% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
Symbols of the City of Boston Primary / institutional
City of Boston Primary / institutional
Massachusetts Historical Society Primary / institutional
Review date: 2026-08-23
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density58
6 connections
Record coverage52
metadata completeness
Graph authority78
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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