It now attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing more than 20 million visitors per year. The city has expanded beyond the original peninsula through land reclamation and municipal annexation. Following American independence from Great Britain, the city continued to play an important role as a port, manufacturing hub, and center for education and culture. During the American Revolution, Boston was the location of several key events, including the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the hanging of Paul Revere's lantern signal in Old North Church, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the siege of Boston.
īoston is one of the nation's oldest municipalities, founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from the Boston, Lincolnshire.
Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area is the eleventh-largest in the country. state of Massachusetts, and the cultural and financial center of New England in the Northeastern United States, with an area of 48.4 sq mi (125 km 2) and a population of 675,647 in 2020.
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