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Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

is the state capital of Massachusetts in the United States.

Boston may also refer to:

Canada

  • Boston, Ontario, in Norfolk County
  • Boston Township, Ontario
  • Boston Mills, Ontario
  • Boston Bar, British Columbia
    Boston Bar, British Columbia
    Boston Bar is an unincorporated town in the Fraser Canyon of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was not named for an organization of Massachusetts lawyers but dates from the time of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush...

    , a community and gold-bearing bar of the same name in the Fraser Canyon

Ireland

  • Boston, County Clare
    Boston, County Clare
    Boston is a village in north County Clare, Ireland. It is situated off R460 the Corrofin to Gort regional road, at the northeastern edge of the Burren National Park, and close to the border with County Galway...

  • Boston, County Laois, a townland in County Laois
    County Laois
    County Laois is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Midlands Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It was formerly known as Queen's County until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. The county's name was formerly spelt as Laoighis and Leix. Laois County Council...

    , Ireland

United Kingdom

  • Boston, Lincolnshire
    Boston, Lincolnshire
    Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. It is the largest town of the wider Borough of Boston local government district and had a total population of 55,750 at the 2001 census...

    , a town on the east coast of England
    • Boston (borough), a local government district of Lincolnshire, England
  • Boston Spa
    Boston Spa
    Boston Spa is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, south of Wetherby, on the banks of the River Wharfe...

     (also known as Thorp Spa), West Yorkshire, England
  • Boston Manor
    Boston Manor
    Boston Manor was one of the ancient manors of Middlesex. It has now been assimilated into the London Borough of Hounslow west London, UK. Its Jacobean manor house of 1622 still stands in what is now Boston Manor Park...

    , London, England

United States

  • Boston, Alabama, a former name of West Greene
  • Boston Mountains
    Boston Mountains
    The Boston Mountains area is a high and deeply dissected plateau located in northern Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. The Oklahoma portion of the range is locally referred to as the Cookson Hills. The rocks of the region are essentially little disturbed, flat-lying sedimentary layers of the Paleozoic...

    , in Arkansas and Oklahoma
  • Boston Ravine, California
    Boston Ravine, California
    Boston Ravine is a former settlement in Nevada County, California. Boston Ravine is located south-southwest of Grass Valley. Its elevation is above sea level.-History:...

  • Boston, Georgia
    Boston, Georgia
    Boston is a city in Thomas County, Georgia, United States. The population was 1,417 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Boston is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....

  • Boston, Indiana
    Boston, Indiana
    Boston is a town in Boston Township, Wayne County, Indiana, United States. The population was 177 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Boston is located at ....

  • Boston Township, Wayne County, Indiana
    Boston Township, Wayne County, Indiana
    Boston Township is one of fifteen townships in Wayne County, Indiana, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 915.-Geography:Boston Township covers an area of ; of this, or 0.08 percent is water...

  • Boston, Kentucky
    Boston, Kentucky
    Boston is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky located along Shelbyville Road & Long Run Creek.-References:#...

  • Boston, Louisville, a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky
  • Boston
    Boston
    Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

    , Massachusetts
    • Greater Boston
      Greater Boston
      Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston. Due to ambiguity in usage, the size of the area referred to can be anywhere between that of the metropolitan statistical area of Boston and that of the city's combined statistical area which includes...

      , a conurbation centered around Boston, Massachusetts
  • Boston Township, Michigan
    Boston Township, Michigan
    Boston Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 4,961.-Geography:...

  • Boston, Missouri
    Boston, Missouri
    Boston is an unincorporated community in southern Barton County, Missouri. It is about halfway between Lamar and Jasper. It is about one mile northeast of the intersection of U.S. Route 71 and Route 126 on county roads. It once had a post office, but mail is now delivered from Lamar....

  • Boston, New York
    Boston, New York
    Boston is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 7,897 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Boston, Massachusetts....

  • Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio
    Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio
    Boston Township is one of the nine townships of Summit County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,664 people in the township, 1,062 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...

  • Boston, Pennsylvania, part of Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
    Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
    Elizabeth Township is a township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 13,271 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.96%, is water.-Demographics:As of the census of...

  • Boston, Texas
    Boston, Texas
    Boston is an unincorporated town in and the county seat of Bowie County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas–Texarkana, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its two area codes are 430 and 903, its zipcode is 75570, and it is in the "Central Standard Time" time zone...

  • South Boston, Virginia
    South Boston, Virginia
    South Boston is a town in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 8,142 at the 2010 census.- History :On December 8, 1796, the General Assembly authorized eight commissioners to establish at Boyd's Ferry on the south side of the Dan River the town of South Boston, named for...


Music

  • Boston (band)
    Boston (band)
    Boston is an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists...

    • Boston (album)
      Boston (album)
      The album soared, with three singles becoming Top 40 hits. All eight of the songs on the album still receive regular airplay on classic rock radio to this day, across the country...

      , their debut album
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Boston Symphony Orchestra
    The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...

  • Boston Pops Orchestra
    Boston Pops Orchestra
    The Boston Pops Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in playing light classical and popular music....

  • Boston (dance)
    Boston (dance)
    Boston, in reference to a dance, may have one of the following meanings.*The Boston, an original name of the American Waltz.Arguably, the dances below are variations of The Boston.*Walking Boston*American Boston*French Boston*Philadelphia Boston...

    , a number of waltz-type dances
  • "Boston" (song)
    Boston (song)
    "Boston" is a song by American rock band Augustana, from their 2005 album All the Stars and Boulevards. It was originally produced in 2003 by Stephen Short for Midwest Skies and Sleepless Mondays and was later re-recorded with producer Brendan O'Brien for All the Stars and Boulevards...

    , a song by Augustana
  • Boston, a brand of piano designed by Steinway & Sons
  • Boston Musical Instrument Company
    Boston Musical Instrument Company
    The Boston Musical Instrument Company was an American manufacturer of brass band instruments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries located in Boston, Massachusetts.- Corporate History :...


Education

Named after Boston, Lincolnshire, UK
  • Boston College (England)
  • Boston Grammar School
    Boston Grammar School
    The Boston Grammar School is a selective grammar school and sixth form college for boys aged 11 to 18 and girls attending the sixth form aged 16–18 located in Boston, Lincolnshire, England....

    , a state school in England
  • Boston High School
    Boston High School
    Boston High School, also known as Boston High School for Girls, is a selective grammar school and sixth form college for girls aged between 11-18 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England...

    , a state school in England


Named for Boston, Massachusetts
  • Boston Baptist College
    Boston Baptist College
    Boston Baptist College is a Bible college located between Hyde Park and Milton, Massachusetts.-History:Boston Baptist was founded in 1976 by A.V. Henderson and John Rawlings of Baptist Bible Fellowship International as Baptist Bible Institute East at Shrub Oak, New York. In 1981, the school moved...

    , a Baptist bible college in Milton, Massachusetts
  • Boston College
    Boston College
    Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

    , a private Jesuit university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
  • Boston College High School
    Boston College High School
    Founded in 1863, Boston College High School is an all-male Jesuit Roman Catholic college preparatory secondary school with historical ties to Boston College. It has an enrollment in grades 7-12 of approximately 1,500 students and is located on a campus on Morrissey Boulevard in the Dorchester...

    , a private Catholic preparatory school
  • Boston Conservatory
    Boston Conservatory
    The Boston Conservatory is a performing arts conservatory located in the Fenway-Kenmore region of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in music, dance and musical theater...

    , a music conservatory
  • Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
    Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
    Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis was founded in 1973 as an institute to train psychoanalysts, particularly in the highly controversial field of Modern Psychoanalysis.- Accreditation :...

    , a graduate school in Brookline, Massachusetts
  • Boston University
    Boston University
    Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

    , a private secular university
  • The Art Institute of Boston
    The Art Institute of Boston
    The Art Institute of Boston is a private, not-for-profit art school in Boston, Massachusetts, and a part of Lesley University. Undergraduate degree programs include animation, design, fine arts, illustration, and photography. Graduate degree programs focus on fine arts and photography, with an art...

    , part of Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • The Boston Architectural College, an architectural college
  • University of Massachusetts Boston
    University of Massachusetts Boston
    The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the second largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. The university is located on on Harbor Point in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States...

    , a public university in the University of Massachusetts system
  • Urban College of Boston
    Urban College of Boston
    Urban College of Boston is a private junior college located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.-History:UCB was founded by ABCD as "a non-traditional, multicultural college" in 1993. It was fully accredited in 2001...

    , a junior college


See List of colleges and universities in metropolitan Boston for a list of institutions in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area

People

  • Billy Boston
    Billy Boston
    William John "Billy" Boston MBE is a former Wales and Great Britain professional Rugby League World Cup winning footballer. Boston is a member of the Rugby League Hall of Fame, Welsh Sports Hall of Fame and was, along with Shaun Edwards the first to be voted into the Wigan Hall Of Fame...

    , Welsh rugby league footballer
  • "Boston Billy", nickname for Bill Rodgers (athlete)
    Bill Rodgers (athlete)
    William "Bill" Henry Rodgers is an American runner and former American record holder in the marathon who is best known for his victories in the Boston Marathon and the New York City Marathon in the late 1970s...

    , four-time winner of the Boston Marathon
  • David Boston
    David Boston
    David Byron Boston is a professional football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Arizona Cardinals eighth overall in the 1999 NFL Draft...

    , American football player
  • Daryl Boston
    Daryl Boston
    Daryl Lamont Boston is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. In 2001, he was named Minor-league roving outfield instructor for the Chicago White Sox....

    , American baseball player
  • Lucy M. Boston
    Lucy M. Boston
    Lucy M. Boston was an English children's writer. She is best known for the six books in the Green Knowe series .-Biography:Boston was born in Southport in Lancashire in 1892 and died in 1990...

    , British author
  • Rachel Boston
    Rachel Boston
    -Biography:Boston was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and grew up in Signal Mountain, Tennessee before moving to New York City at the age of seventeen to attend New York University. She was Miss Tennessee Teen USA in 1999, placing in the Top 10 at the national pageant.-Career:She starred in the NBC...

    , American model and actress
  • Ralph Boston
    Ralph Boston
    Ralph Harold Boston is an American athlete. He was an all around athletic star, but he is best remembered for his successes in the long jump during the 1960s....

    , American track and field athlete
  • Richard Boston
    Richard Boston
    Richard Boston was an English journalist and author, he was a rigorous dissenter and a belligerent pacifist...

    , British journalist and writer
  • Rob Boston
    Rob Boston
    Robert Boston has been Assistant Director of Communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Assistant Editor of Church & State magazine since 1987. Boston is an advocate of separation of church and state and has authored three books on the subject. He frequently...

    , author, advocate of church-state separation
  • Reverend Thomas Boston
    Thomas Boston
    Thomas Boston was a Scottish church leader.He was born at Duns. His father, John Boston, and his mother, Alison Trotter, were both Covenanters. He was educated at Edinburgh, and licensed in 1697 by the presbytery of Chirnside...

    , 18th c. Scottish theologian
  • Thomas "Boston" Corbett
    Boston Corbett
    Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He disappeared after 1888, but circumstantial evidence suggests that he died in the Great Hinckley Fire in 1894, although this remains impossible to substantiate.-Early...

    , the Union soldier who shot Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth
  • Ward Boston
    Ward Boston
    Ward Boston, Jr. was an attorney and a retired United States Navy Captain.He served in World War II as a Navy fighter pilot and worked as a special agent for the FBI...

     Jr., Navy Captain
  • Sir William Boston Cushion
    William Cushion
    Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Boston Cushion KBE CB was a British Army and Royal Air Force officer and an executive of the British Overseas Airways Corporation.-Early life:...

    , Royal Air Force officer

Companies

  • Boston Pizza
    Boston Pizza
    Boston Pizza is a Canadian-based restaurant chain which owns and franchises locations in Canada, the United States and Mexico.-History:...

    , a Canadian pizza chain, owner of Boston's of America
  • Boston Market
    Boston Market
    Boston Market, known as Boston Chicken until 1995, headquartered in Golden, Colorado, is a chain of American fast casual restaurants. It is owned by private equity firm Sun Capital Partners, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.-History:...

    , an American fast-casual restaurant chain
  • Boston-Power, lithium ion battery
    Lithium ion battery
    A lithium-ion battery is a family of rechargeable battery types in which lithium ions move from the negative electrode to the positive electrode during discharge, and back when charging. Chemistry, performance, cost, and safety characteristics vary across LIB types...

     maker
  • Boston Store
    Boston Store
    -History:The Boston Store is mentioned in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" published in 1900 and Carl Sandburg's Mamie, part of his 1916 Chicago Poems collection....

    , a department store chain, also the name of other defunct stores
  • Boston Acoustics
    Boston Acoustics
    Founded in 1979 by Advent veterans Andy Kotsatos and Frank Reed, Boston Acoustics is a manufacturer of home and mobile audio equipment operated out of Peabody, Massachusetts. Boston Acoustics entered the mobile audio category in 1983...

    , a manufacturer of home and mobile audio equipment
  • Old Mr. Boston
    Old Mr. Boston
    Old Mr. Boston was a distillery located at 1010 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts from 1933 to 1986. It produced its own label of gin, bourbon, rum, and brandies, as well as a few cordials and liqueurs.-History:...

     (later Mr. Boston, then just "Boston"), a defunct distillery

Ships and airplanes

  • The A-20 Boston, a WW II-era light bomber and night fighter made by the Douglas Aircraft Company
  • The USS Boston
    USS Boston
    Seven ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Boston, in honor of the city of Boston, Massachusetts.* The , was a gundalow launched in 1776 and was burned to avoid capture by the British on 13 October 1776....

    , any of a number of U.S. Navy ships with this name, with the last being decommissioned in 1999
  • SS City of Boston
    SS City of Boston
    The SS City of Boston was a British iron-hulled single-screw passenger steamship of the Inman Line which disappeared in the North Atlantic Ocean en route from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool in January 1870.- Description :...

    , an ocean liner which disappeared without a trace in 1870
  • Boston (ship), a vessel in the marine fur trade off British Columbia captured and destroyed in 1803

Amtrak stations

  • North Station (Downeaster)
  • South Station
    South Station
    South Station, New England's second-largest transportation center , located at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Summer Street in Dewey Square, Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest train station and intercity bus terminal in Greater Boston, a prominent train station in the northeastern...

     (Acela Express, Lake Shore Limited, Northeast Regional)
  • Back Bay (MBTA station)
    Back Bay (MBTA station)
    Back Bay station, located at 145 Dartmouth Street, between Stuart Street and Columbus Avenue, is a train station in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston...

     (Acela Express, Lake Shore Limited, Northeast Regional)

Other

  • Boston (novel)
    Boston (novel)
    Boston is a novel by Upton Sinclair. It is a "documentary novel" that combines the facts of the case with journalistic depictions of actual participants and fictional characters and events...

    , a 1928 work by Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair
    Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. , was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle . It exposed conditions in the U.S...

  • "Boston the Bear", a geographic Beanie Baby honoring the city of Boston
  • Eight Ball
    Eight ball
    Eight-ball is a pool game popular in much of the world, and the subject of international professional and amateur competition...

     or "Boston", a pocket billiards game
  • Boston, the Microsoft
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

     pre-release codename for Visual Studio 97, as a reference to Boston, Massachusetts
  • Boston Blackie
    Boston Blackie
    Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle . Originally a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's novels, he became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television—an "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend."-Literature:Jack...

    , a fictional character in literature, films, radio and television
  • Boston Camera
    Boston Camera
    The Boston Camera was a prototype airborne photo reconnaissance camera manufactured for the United States Air Force by Boston University in 1951 and tested on the Convair B-36 and the C-97 Stratofreighter. The model carried on the first ERB-36D had a 6096 mm focal length, which was achieved...

    , a type of camera
  • Boston cream pie
    Boston cream pie
    A Boston cream pie is a round cake that is split and filled with a custard or cream filling and frosted with chocolate. Although it is called a Boston cream pie, it is in fact a cake, and not a pie....

    , a cream filled dessert
  • Boston baked beans (disambiguation)
  • Boston (Hasidic dynasty)
    Boston (Hasidic dynasty)
    Boston is a Hasidic sect, originally established in 1915 by Grand Rabbi Pinchas Duvid Horowitz. Following the custom of European Chassidic Courts, where the Rebbe was called after the name of his city, Bostoner Chassidus was named after Boston, Massachusetts...

    , a Hasidic dynasty founded in Boston in the early 20th century
  • Boston (horse)
    Boston (horse)
    Boston , was an outstanding chestnut Thoroughbred racehorse and a Leading sire in North America three times from 1851 to 1853. He started in about 45 races, winning 40 of these, including 15 in succession...

    , American racehorse
  • Boston Marathon
    Boston Marathon
    The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon hosted by the U.S. city of Boston, Massachusetts, on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. Begun in 1897 and inspired by the success of the first modern-day marathon competition in the 1896 Summer Olympics, the Boston Marathon is the world's oldest...

    , world's oldest annual marathon
  • Boston terrier
    Boston Terrier
    The Boston Terrier is a breed of dog originating in the United States of America. This "American Gentleman" was accepted in 1893 by the American Kennel Club as a non-sporting breed. Color and markings are important when distinguishing this breed to the AKC standard. They should be either black,...

    , a breed of domestic dog
  • Boston Post Road
    Boston Post Road
    The Boston Post Road was a system of mail-delivery routes between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts that evolved into the first major highways in the United States.The three major alignments were the Lower Post Road The Boston Post Road was a system of mail-delivery routes between New York...

    , a system of mail-delivery routes established in colonial times
  • Boston Red Sox
    Boston Red Sox
    The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

    , a Major League Baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Boston (card game)
    Boston (card game)
    Boston is an 18th century trick-taking card game played throughout the Western world apart from Britain, forming an evolutionary link between Hombre and Solo Whist...

    , an 18th century card game
  • Boston, winning or bidding to win every trick in a round of Bid whist
  • "Boston", an unaired episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
    Aqua Teen Hunger Force
    Aqua Teen Hunger Force , retitled Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 in 2011, is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network late night programing block, Adult Swim, as well as Teletoon's Teletoon at Night block and later G4 Canada's ADd block in Canada...


See also

  • Bostonian (disambiguation)
  • New Boston (disambiguation)
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