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Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
 surrounding the city of Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
. Due to ambiguity in usage, the size of the area referred to can be anywhere between that of the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) of Boston to that of the city's combined statistical area
Combined Statistical Area

The United States Office of Management and Budget defines United States micropolitan area and United States metropolitan area. Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas consist of one or more counties ....
 (CSA) which includes the metro areas of Providence, Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States....
 and Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts....
.

By contrast, Metro Boston is usually reserved to signify the "Inner Core" surrounding the City of Boston, while "Greater Boston" usually at least overlaps the North
North Shore (Massachusetts)

The North Shore is a region north of Boston, consisting chiefly of communities in Essex County, Massachusetts along Massachusetts Bay....
 and South Shores, as well as MetroWest and the Merrimack Valley
Merrimack Valley

The Merrimack Valley is the area surrounding the Merrimack River in northeastern Massachusetts. The area on either side of the Merrimack in New Hampshire is named the Merrimack Valley Region by the NH Division of Travel and Tourism Development....
.

Greater Boston includes the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, home to over 4.4 million people, while the CSA is the nation's fifth largest
Table of United States Combined Statistical Areas

The United States Census Bureau has defined 123 Combined Statistical Areas for the United States of America. The Census Bureau defines a Combined Statistical Area as an aggregate of adjacent Core Based Statistical Areas that are linked by commuting ties....
 and includes over 7.4 million people.






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Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
 surrounding the city of Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
. Due to ambiguity in usage, the size of the area referred to can be anywhere between that of the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) of Boston to that of the city's combined statistical area
Combined Statistical Area

The United States Office of Management and Budget defines United States micropolitan area and United States metropolitan area. Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas consist of one or more counties ....
 (CSA) which includes the metro areas of Providence, Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States....
 and Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts....
.

By contrast, Metro Boston is usually reserved to signify the "Inner Core" surrounding the City of Boston, while "Greater Boston" usually at least overlaps the North
North Shore (Massachusetts)

The North Shore is a region north of Boston, consisting chiefly of communities in Essex County, Massachusetts along Massachusetts Bay....
 and South Shores, as well as MetroWest and the Merrimack Valley
Merrimack Valley

The Merrimack Valley is the area surrounding the Merrimack River in northeastern Massachusetts. The area on either side of the Merrimack in New Hampshire is named the Merrimack Valley Region by the NH Division of Travel and Tourism Development....
.

Greater Boston includes the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, home to over 4.4 million people, while the CSA is the nation's fifth largest
Table of United States Combined Statistical Areas

The United States Census Bureau has defined 123 Combined Statistical Areas for the United States of America. The Census Bureau defines a Combined Statistical Area as an aggregate of adjacent Core Based Statistical Areas that are linked by commuting ties....
 and includes over 7.4 million people. It is also the 51st most populous metropolitan area in the world
List of metropolitan areas by population

The question of which are the world's largest cities is a complex one, to which there is no single correct answer, simply because there are many different ways of defining a "city"....
. Greater Boston contains more urbanized area than the other regions of Massachusetts, such as the more rural Western Massachusetts
Western Massachusetts

Western Massachusetts is a loosely defined geographical region of the U.S. state of Massachusetts which contains the Berkshires and the Pioneer Valley....
 and the beach communities of Cape Cod
Cape Cod

Cape Cod, often referred to as simply the Cape, is a peninsula in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States....
. There are a decreasing number of working class
Working class

Working class is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe, depending on context and speaker, those employed in specific fields or types of work....
 communities within Greater Boston. The area features many universities
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
.

Greater Boston encompasses many significant locations in American history and culture. Examples include the Paul Revere
Paul Revere

Paul Revere was an American silversmith and a Patriot in the American Revolution.He was glorified after his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord, and Revere's name and his "midnight ride" are well-known in the United States as a patriotic symbol....
 House, the Old North Church
Old North Church

The Old North Church , at 193 Salem Street, in the North End, Boston of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, is the location from which the famous "One if by land, and two if by sea" signal is said to have been sent....
, the Old Granary Burying Ground
Granary Burying Ground

Founded in 1660, the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts is the city's third-oldest cemetery. It serves as the final resting place for many notable American Revolutionary War-era Patriot , including three signers of the Declaration of Independence and the five victims of the Boston Massacre....
, the site of the Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against the Kingdom of Great Britain in which they destroyed many crates of tea belonging to the British East India Company and dumped it into the Boston Harbor....
 and that of the Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Bunker Hill

The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775 on Breed's Hill, as part of the Siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary War. General Israel Putnam was in charge of the revolutionary forces, while Major-General William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe commanded the Kingdom of Great Britain forces....
, the USS Constitution
USS Constitution

USS Constitution is a wooden-hull ed, three-Mast heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named after the United States Constitution by President George Washington, she is the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat in the world. is the oldest commissioned vessel by three decades; however, Victory is permanently drydo...
, Lexington
Lexington, Massachusetts

Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 30,355 at the 2000 census.The town is famous for being the site of the opening shots of the American Revolution, in the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775....
 and Concord
Concord, Massachusetts

Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2000 Census, the town population was about 17,000....
, Walden Pond
Walden Pond

Walden Pond is a 102-foot deep pond, in area and around, located in Concord, Massachusetts, in the United States. A famous example of a Kettle , it was formed by retreating glaciers 10,000 - 12,000 years ago....
, the site of the Salem witch trials
Salem witch trials

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex County, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and Middlesex County, Massachusetts Counties of colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693....
, and the Christian Science Mother Church
Church of Christ, Scientist

The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which offered a unique interpretation of Christian faith....
. Former Presidents
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 John Adams
John Adams

John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
 and John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was an Foreign relations of the United States and Politics of the United States who served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from March 4, 1825 to March 4, 1829....
 were born in Quincy, Massachusetts
Quincy, Massachusetts

Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "The City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream"....
, as was John Hancock
John Hancock

John Hancock was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as President of the Continental Congress of the Second Continental Congress and was the first Governor of Massachusetts of the Massachusetts....
. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was an American Abolitionism, History of women's suffrage in the United States, editing, orator, author, statesman and Reform movement....
 began his career as an abolitionist in Boston. Former President John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
 was born in Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston, Massachusetts and Newton, Massachusetts....
. Former President George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan and Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald R....
 was born in Milton
Milton, Massachusetts

Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States and part of the Greater Boston area. The population was 26,062 at the 2000 census....
. Malcolm X
Malcolm X

Malcolm X , also known as Hajji Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans....
 spent a significant part of his young adulthood in Roxbury
Roxbury, Massachusetts

Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts USA. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868....
, and joined the Nation of Islam
Nation of Islam

The Nation of Islam is a religious group founded in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan, United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in July 1930 with the self-proclaimed goal of resurrecting the spiritual, mind, society, and economics condition of the Black people of America....
 while in prison in Charlestown
Charlestown, Massachusetts

Charlestown is a part of the city of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts located on a peninsula north of Boston proper. Charlestown was originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; it became a city in 1847 and was annexed by Boston on January 5, 1874....
. The National Archives
National Archives and Records Administration

The United States National Archives and Records Administration is an Independent agencies of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents....
 has a regional center in Waltham
Waltham, Massachusetts

One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
.

Definitions


Metropolitan Area Planning Council

The most restrictive definition of the Greater Boston area is the region administered by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC). The MAPC is a regional planning organization created by the Massachusetts legislature to oversee transportation infrastructure and economic development concerns in the Boston area. The MAPC includes 101 cities and towns that are grouped into eight subregions. These include most of the area within the region's outer circumferential highway, I-495. The population of the MAPC is 3,066,394 (as of 2000), in an area of , of which 39% is forested and an additional 11% is water, wetland, or other open space.

The eight subregions and their principal towns are: Inner Core (Boston), Minuteman (Route 2 corridor), MetroWest (Framingham), North Shore
North Shore (Massachusetts)

The North Shore is a region north of Boston, consisting chiefly of communities in Essex County, Massachusetts along Massachusetts Bay....
 (Peabody), North Suburban (Woburn), South Shore (Route 3 corridor), SouthWest (Franklin), and Three Rivers (Norwood).

Notably excluded from the MAPC and its partner transportation-planning body, the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization, are the Merrimack Valley
Merrimack Valley

The Merrimack Valley is the area surrounding the Merrimack River in northeastern Massachusetts. The area on either side of the Merrimack in New Hampshire is named the Merrimack Valley Region by the NH Division of Travel and Tourism Development....
 cities of Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill, much of Plymouth County
Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Plymouth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of 2000, the population was 472,822. Its county seats are Plymouth, Massachusetts and Brockton, Massachusetts....
, and all of Bristol County
Bristol County, Massachusetts

Bristol County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, adjacent to the state of Rhode Island. As of 2005, the population was estimated at 546,331....
; these areas have their own regional planning bodies.

New England City and Town Area

The urbanized area
United States urban area

Urban areas in the United States are defined by the United States Census Bureau as contiguous census block groups with a population density of at least with any census block groups around this core having a density of at least ....
 surrounding Boston serves as the core of a definition used by the U.S. Census Bureau known as the New England city and town area
New England City and Town Area

A New England City and Town Area or NECTA is a geographic and statistical entity defined by the U. S. Office of Management and Budget, for use in describing aspects of the New England region of the United States....
. The set of towns containing the core urbanized area plus surrounding towns with strong social and economic ties to the core area is defined as the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH Metropolitan NECTA. The Boston NECTA is further subdivided into several NECTA divisions, which are listed below. The Boston, Framingham, and Peabody NECTA divisions together correspond roughly to the MAPC area. The total population of the Boston NECTA was 4,540,941 (as of 2000).

  • Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA NECTA Division (97 towns)
  • Framingham, MA NECTA Division (13 towns)
  • Peabody, MA NECTA Division (7 towns)
  • Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Division (Old Colony region) (12 towns)
  • Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury, MA-NH NECTA Division (Merrimack Valley region) (25 towns)
  • Lawrence-Methuen-Salem, MA-NH NECTA Division (part of Merrimack Valley region) (3 towns)
  • Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH NECTA Division (Northern Middlesex region) (9 towns)
  • Nashua, NH-MA NECTA Division (21 towns)
  • Taunton-Norton-Raynham, MA NECTA Division (part of Southeastern region) (6 towns)


Metropolitan statistical area

An alternative definition used by the U.S. Census Bureau, using counties as building blocks instead of towns, is the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is further subdivided into four metropolitan divisions. The metropolitan statistical area has a total population of about 4.4 million and is the eleventh-largest
United States metropolitan area

In the United States, the Office of Management and Budget has produced a formal definition of metropolitan areas. These are referred to as "Metropolitan Statistical Areas" and "Combined Statistical Areas." An earlier version of the MSA was the "Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area" ....
 in the United States. The components of the metropolitan area with their 2005 populations are listed below.

  • Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area (4,411,835)
    • Boston-Quincy, MA Metropolitan Division (1,800,432)
      • Norfolk County
        Norfolk County, Massachusetts

        Norfolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of 2000, the population was 650,308. Its county seat is Dedham, Massachusetts....
        , Massachusetts
        Massachusetts

        The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
      • Plymouth County
        Plymouth County, Massachusetts

        Plymouth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of 2000, the population was 472,822. Its county seats are Plymouth, Massachusetts and Brockton, Massachusetts....
        , Massachusetts
        Massachusetts

        The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
      • Suffolk County
        Suffolk County, Massachusetts

        Suffolk County is a county of Massachusetts. As of 2000, the population was 689,807. Its county seat is Boston, Massachusetts....
        , Massachusetts
        Massachusetts

        The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
    • Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA Metropolitan Division (1,459,011)
      • Middlesex County
        Middlesex County, Massachusetts

        Middlesex County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is the most populous county in Massachusetts. As of the United States Census, 2000, the population was 1,465,396....
        , Massachusetts
        Massachusetts

        The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
    • Essex County, MA Metropolitan Division (738,301)
      • Essex County
        Essex County, Massachusetts

        Essex County is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of 2000, the population was 723,419. It has two county seats: Salem, Massachusetts and Lawrence, Massachusetts....
        , Massachusetts
        Massachusetts

        The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
    • Rockingham County-Strafford County, NH Metropolitan Division (414,091)
      • Rockingham County
        Rockingham County, New Hampshire

        Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of 2000, the population was 277,359. The county seat is Brentwood, New Hampshire, although Exeter, New Hampshire is the traditional county seat....
        , New Hampshire
        New Hampshire

        New Hampshire is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States of America. The state was named after the southern English Counties of England of Hampshire....
      • Strafford County
        Strafford County, New Hampshire

        Strafford County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of 2000, the population was 112,233. Its county seat is Dover, New Hampshire....
        , New Hampshire
        New Hampshire

        New Hampshire is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States of America. The state was named after the southern English Counties of England of Hampshire....


Combined statistical area

A wider functional metropolitan area based on commuting patterns is also defined by the Census Bureau as the Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-RI-NH Combined Statistical Area
Combined Statistical Area

The United States Office of Management and Budget defines United States micropolitan area and United States metropolitan area. Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas consist of one or more counties ....
. This area consists of the metropolitan areas of Manchester
Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester is the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the largest city of northern New England, an area composed of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine....
, Worcester
Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts....
, and Providence
Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States....
, in addition to Greater Boston. The total population (as of 2005) for the extended region is 7,427,336. The following areas, along with the above MSA, are included in the Combined Statistical Area:

  • Worcester, MA Metropolitan Statistical Area (783,262)
    • Worcester County
      Worcester County, Massachusetts

      Worcester County is a non-governmental county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The largest city and county seat is the Worcester, Massachusetts....
      , Massachusetts
      Massachusetts

      The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
  • Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA Metropolitan Statistical Area (1,622,520)
    • Bristol County
      Bristol County, Massachusetts

      Bristol County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, adjacent to the state of Rhode Island. As of 2005, the population was estimated at 546,331....
      , Massachusetts
      Massachusetts

      The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
    • Bristol County
      Bristol County, Rhode Island

      Bristol County is a county located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of 2000, the population was 50,648....
      , Rhode Island
      Rhode Island

      Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a U.S. state in the New England region of the United States....
    • Kent County
      Kent County, Rhode Island

      Kent County is a county located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of 2000, the population was 167,090....
      , Rhode Island
      Rhode Island

      Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a U.S. state in the New England region of the United States....
    • Newport County
      Newport County, Rhode Island

      Newport County is one of five County located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of 2000, the population of Newport County was 85,433. Newport County is also one of the seven regions of Rhode Island, per ...
      , Rhode Island
      Rhode Island

      Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a U.S. state in the New England region of the United States....
    • Providence County
      Providence County, Rhode Island

      Providence County is a county located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of 2000, the population was 621,602. The center of population of Rhode Island is located in Providence County, in the city of Cranston, Rhode Island ....
      , Rhode Island
      Rhode Island

      Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a U.S. state in the New England region of the United States....
    • Washington County
      Washington County, Rhode Island

      Washington County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Washington County borders Kent County, Rhode Island to the north, New London County, Connecticut in Connecticut to the west, Suffolk County, New York in New York to the southwest, and Newport County, Rhode Island to the east....
      , Rhode Island
      Rhode Island

      Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a U.S. state in the New England region of the United States....
  • Concord, NH Micropolitan Statistical Area (146,681)
    • Merrimack County
      Merrimack County, New Hampshire

      Merrimack County is a county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. In 2000 the population was 136,225. Its county seat is Concord, New Hampshire....
      , New Hampshire
      New Hampshire

      New Hampshire is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States of America. The state was named after the southern English Counties of England of Hampshire....
  • Laconia, NH Micropolitan Statistical Area (61,547)
    • Belknap County
      Belknap County, New Hampshire

      Belknap County is one of ten County in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. It is located in New Hampshire's Lakes Region , slightly southeast of the state's geographic center....
      , New Hampshire
      New Hampshire

      New Hampshire is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States of America. The state was named after the southern English Counties of England of Hampshire....
  • Manchester-Nashua, NH Metropolitan Statistical Area (401,291)
    • Hillsborough County
      Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

      Hillsborough County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of 2000, the population was 380,841. Its county seats are Manchester, New Hampshire and Nashua, New Hampshire....
      , New Hampshire
      New Hampshire

      New Hampshire is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States of America. The state was named after the southern English Counties of England of Hampshire....


Principal cities and towns


Boston metropolitan area

This list has been provided by the Census based on commuter populations, and is generally not what a resident of the area would consider the principal cities of the region.

  • Boston
    Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
  • Cambridge
    Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
  • Framingham
    Framingham, Massachusetts

    Framingham is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 66,910, making it the most populous New England town in New England....
  • Nashua
    Nashua, New Hampshire

    Nashua is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2000 census, Nashua had a total population of 86,605, making it the second largest city in the state after Manchester, New Hampshire ....
  • Newton
    Newton, Massachusetts

    The City of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts,is a large residential suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, which abuts it on the east....
  • Peabody
    Peabody, Massachusetts

    Peabody is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 48,129. Peabody is located in Boston, Massachusetts North Shore suburban area....
  • Quincy
    Quincy, Massachusetts

    Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "The City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream"....
  • Waltham
    Waltham, Massachusetts

    One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....


These, in decreasing order, are the ten largest cities in the Boston NECTA (2006)

  • Boston
    Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
     590,763
  • Lowell
    Lowell, Massachusetts

    Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 105,167....
     103,229
  • Cambridge
    Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
     101,365
  • Brockton
    Brockton, Massachusetts

    Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population size was recorded as 94,304 in the 2000 census; the size has roughly stayed about the same since....
     94,191
  • Quincy
    Quincy, Massachusetts

    Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Its nicknames are "The City of Presidents", "City of Legends", and "Birthplace of the American Dream"....
     91,058
  • Lynn
    Lynn, Massachusetts

    Lynn is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 89,050 at the 2000 census. An older industrial center, Lynn is home to Lynn Beach and Lynn Heritage State Park....
     87,991
  • Nashua
    Nashua, New Hampshire

    Nashua is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2000 census, Nashua had a total population of 86,605, making it the second largest city in the state after Manchester, New Hampshire ....
     87,157
  • Newton
    Newton, Massachusetts

    The City of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts,is a large residential suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, which abuts it on the east....
     82,819
  • Somerville
    Somerville, Massachusetts

    Somerville is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, just north of Boston. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 77,478 and was the most densely populated municipality in New England....
     74,554
  • Lawrence
    Lawrence, Massachusetts

    Lawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States on the Merrimack River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 72,043....
     70,662


Satellite areas

These larger cities fall within the CSA definition of Greater Boston only

  • Fall River
    Fall River, Massachusetts

    Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is located about south of Boston, Massachusetts, southeast of Providence, Rhode Island and west of New Bedford, Massachusetts....
  • Fitchburg
    Fitchburg, Massachusetts

    Fitchburg is a city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 39,102 at the 2000 census. Fitchburg is home to Fitchburg State College as well as 19 public and private elementary and high schools....
  • Leominster
    Leominster, Massachusetts

    Leominster is a city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 41,303 at the 2000 census. Leominster is located north of Worcester, Massachusetts and west of Boston, Massachusetts....
  • New Bedford
    New Bedford, Massachusetts

    New Bedford is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, located about 51 miles south of Boston, Massachusetts, 28 miles southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, and about 12 miles east of Fall River, Massachusetts....
  • Manchester
    Manchester, New Hampshire

    Manchester is the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the largest city of northern New England, an area composed of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine....
  • Providence
    Providence, Rhode Island

    Providence is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States....
  • Warwick
    Warwick, Rhode Island

    Warwick is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, United States. It is the second largest city in the state, with a population of 85,808 at the United States Census, 2000....
  • Worcester
    Worcester, Massachusetts

    Worcester is a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts....


Major companies


  • Companies along, inside or outside I-495
    • 3Com
      3Com

      3Com is a manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Bruce Borden, and Greg Shaw, and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
      , in Marlborough
      Marlborough, Massachusetts

      Marlborough is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 36,255 at the 2000 census. The name of this town is sometimes spelled as Marlboro, rather than Marlborough, which is the official spelling....
       (Headquarters)
    • Abbott Laboratories
      Abbott Laboratories

      Abbott Laboratories is a diversified Pharmacology health care company. It has 68,000 employees and operates in 130 countries. The corporate headquarters are in Abbott Park, Illinois, located near North Chicago, Illinois....
      , in Worcester
      Worcester, Massachusetts

      Worcester is a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts....
       (Pharmaceutical laboratory)
    • Advanced Cell Technology
      Advanced Cell Technology

      Advanced Cell Technology , a biotechnology company formed in 1994, is involved with therapeutic cloning and the cloning of animals. Among the animals it has cloned are transgenic cows....
      , in Worcester (Research laboratory)
    • AMD, in Marlborough
    • Analog Devices
      Analog Devices

      Analog Devices is an United States Multinational corporation producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in analog-to-digital converter, digital-to-analog converter, MEMS, and digital signal processing chips for consumer and industrial goods....
      , in Norwood
      Norwood, Massachusetts

      Norwood is a town and census-designated place in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 28,587....
    • Avid Technology, Inc
      Avid Technology

      Avid Technology, Inc is an United States company specializing in video and audio production technology; specifically, digital Non-linear editing system systems, management and distribution services....
      , in Tewksbury
      Tewksbury, Massachusetts

      Tewksbury is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 28,851 at the 2000 census....
       (Headquarters)
    • BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc., in Natick
      Natick, Massachusetts

      Natick is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Natick is located near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 32,170 at the 2000 census....
       (Headquarters)
    • Bose Corporation, in Framingham
      Framingham, Massachusetts

      Framingham is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 66,910, making it the most populous New England town in New England....
       (Headquarters)
    • Boston Scientific Corporation
      Boston Scientific

      The Boston Scientific Corporation , is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a range of interventional medical specialties, including interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neuromodulation, neurovascular intervention, electrophysiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery,...
      , in Natick, Massachusetts (Headquarters)
    • Boston Scientific Corporation
      Boston Scientific

      The Boston Scientific Corporation , is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a range of interventional medical specialties, including interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neuromodulation, neurovascular intervention, electrophysiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery,...
      , in Marlboro
    • Boston Properties, Inc.
      Boston Properties

      Boston Properties, Inc. is a self-managed real estate investment trust based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its primary focus is Class A office space which it acquires, develops, and manages in the major markets of Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California....
      , in Boston, Massachusetts (Headquarters)
    • David Clark Company
      David Clark Company

      David Clark Company, Inc. is an United States manufacturer, best known for noise attenuating headsets with boom microphones for use in military aviation, commercial aviation, and professional communication in high-noise environments....
      , in Worcester (manufacturer of space suits)
    • Diebold
      Diebold

      Diebold, Inc. is a United States-based security systems corporation that is engaged primarily in the sale, manufacture, installation and service of self-service transaction systems , electronic and physical security products , voting machines, and software and integrated systems for global financial and commercial markets....
      , in Marlborough (Regional Headquarters)
    • EMC Corporation
      EMC Corporation

      EMC Corporation is a United States Fortune 500 and S&P 500 provider of information infrastructure systems, software and services. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA....
      , in Hopkinton
      Hopkinton, Massachusetts

      Hopkinton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, just over west and south of Boston, Massachusetts. The town is best known as the starting point of the Boston Marathon, held annually on Patriot's Day in April, and as the home of computer storage firm EMC Corporation....
       (Headquarters)
    • Hewlett-Packard Company, in Marlborough (Regional Headquarters)
    • Intel Corporation
      Intel Corporation

      Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the X86 architecture series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers....
      , in Hudson
      Hudson, Massachusetts

      Hudson is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 18,113 at the 2000 census, and estimated to have reached about 19,580 in 2007....
    • TJX Corporation, in Framingham (Headquarters)
    • Red Hat
      Red Hat

      In computing, Red Hat, Inc. is a company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1995, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....
      , in Westford (Engineering Headquarters)
    • Monster.com
      Monster.com

      Monster.com is an employment website owned by Monster Worldwide. Monster is one of the 20 most visited websites out of 100 million worldwide, according to comScore Media Metrics ....
      , in Maynard, Massachusetts (Headquarters)
    • Morgan Construction Company, in Worcester, rolling steel mill technology
    • Saint-Gobain
      Saint-Gobain

      Saint-Gobain SA is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris and headquartered on the outskirts of Paris at La D?fense. Originally a mirror manufacturer, it now also produces a variety of construction and high-performance materials....
      , in Worcester
    • Sepracor, Inc., in Marlborough (Headquarters)
    • Staples, Inc.
      Staples, Inc.

      Staples, Inc. is the world's largest office supply retail store chain, with over 2,000 stores worldwide in 27 countries. The company has catalog and delivery businesses and serves customers in Argentina , Austria, Brazil , Canada , China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom and the United States....
      , in Framingham (Headquarters)
    • TripAdvisor, LLC
      TripAdvisor

      TripAdvisor.com is a free travel guide and research website that hosts reviews from users and other information designed to help plan a vacation....
      , in Needham
      Needham, Massachusetts

      Needham is an affluent town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, its population was 28,911 at the United States Census, 2000....
       (Headquarters)
    • WB Mason
      WB Mason

      W.B. Mason is a large office supply contract retailer that competes with Staples, OfficeMax, and Office Depot. W.B. Mason currently serves the New England and Mid-Atlantic areas of the United States....
      , in Brockton
      Brockton, Massachusetts

      Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population size was recorded as 94,304 in the 2000 census; the size has roughly stayed about the same since....
       (Headquarters)
    • Wyman-Gordon, in Grafton
      Grafton

      Grafton may refer to:...
      , complex metal components and products


  • Companies along or inside I-95 (Route 128)
    • Akamai Technologies
      Akamai Technologies

      Akamai Technologies, Inc. , , is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet Content Delivery Network, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
      , in Cambridge
      Cambridge, Massachusetts

      Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
    • BBN Technologies
      BBN Technologies

      BBN Technologies is a high-technology company which provides research and development services. BBN is based next to Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
      , in Cambridge (Headquarters)
    • Biogen Idec
      Biogen Idec

      Biogen Idec, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in drugs for neurology, autoimmune disorders and cancer. The company was formed in 2003 by the merger of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen and San Diego, California-based Idec Pharmaceuticals ....
      , in Cambridge
    • Carl Zeiss SMT
      Zeiss

      The Carl Zeiss company is a Germany manufacturer of optics, industrial measurements and medical devices originally founded in Jena in 1846 by Carl Zeiss, Ernst Abbe, and Otto Schott....
      , in Peabody
      Peabody, Massachusetts

      Peabody is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 48,129. Peabody is located in Boston, Massachusetts North Shore suburban area....
       (North American Headquarters)
    • Dunkin Donuts, in Canton
      Canton, Massachusetts

      Canton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 20,775 at the 2000 census. Canton is part of Greater Boston, about 15 miles southwest of downtown Boston....
       (Headquarters)
    • Genzyme Corporation, in Cambridge (Headquarters)
    • Genzyme Corporation, in Waltham (R&D)
    • IBM
      IBM

      International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
      , in Waltham
      Waltham, Massachusetts

      One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
    • iRobot Corporation
      IRobot

      Founded in 1990 and incorporation in Delaware in 2000, the iRobot Corporation designs robots such an autonomous home vacuum cleaner , the Scooba that scrubs and cleans hard floors, and Military robots and police robots, such as the PackBot....
      , in Burlington
      Burlington, Massachusetts

      Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 22,876 at the 2000 census....
       (Headquarters)
    • InterSystems Corporation, in Cambridge (Headquarters)
    • Haemonetics
      Haemonetics

      Haemonetics is a global provider of blood and blood plasma supplies and services. Founded in Braintree , Massachusetts, Massachusetts in the 1970s, the company has expanded and has many offices located in 16 countries....
      , in Braintree, Massachusetts
      Braintree, Massachusetts

      The Town of Braintree is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 33,828 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Metro Boston area with access to the MBTA Red Line but is considered by some to be part of the South Shore as a member of the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission's South Shore Coali...
    • Meditech
      Meditech

      Medical Information Technology, Inc., commonly known as MEDITECH, is a Massachusetts-based software and service company serving the medical community with information systems, which are installed in health care organizations throughout the world....
      , in Westwood
      Westwood, Massachusetts

      Westwood is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 14,117 at the United States Census, 2000....
       (Headquarters)
    • Millennium Pharmaceuticals
      Millennium Pharmaceuticals

      Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., The Takeda Oncology Company is a biopharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Company markets Velcade for injection, a cancer product, and has a growing clinical development pipeline of product candidates....
      , in Cambridge
    • National Amusements
      National Amusements

      National Amusements, Inc. is a privately owned media and entertainment company based in Dedham, Massachusetts, USA. The company was founded in 1936 as the Northeast Theatre Corporation by Michael Redstone....
      , (Parent company of CBS, Viacom and Midway Games), in Dedham
      Dedham, Massachusetts

      Dedham /'d?d?m/ is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 23,464 at the 2000 census....
       (Headquarters)
    • Novartis AG, Inc
      Novartis

      Novartis International AG is a multinational corporation pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland that manufactures drugs such as clozapine , diclofenac , carbamazepine , valsartan , imatinib mesylate , ciclosporin , letrozole , methylphenidate , terbinafine , and others....
      , in Cambridge (Research Headquarters)
    • Novell, Inc., in Waltham
      Waltham, Massachusetts

      One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
    • Raytheon
      Raytheon

      Raytheon Company is a major United States defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in defense systems and defense and commercial electronics....
      , in Waltham (Headquarters)
    • Reebok
      Reebok

      Reebok International Limited is a producer of Athletic shoe, apparel, and accessories and is currently a subsidiary of Adidas. The name comes from the Afrikaans spelling of rhebok, a type of African antelope or gazelle....
      , in Canton
      Canton, Massachusetts

      Canton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 20,775 at the 2000 census. Canton is part of Greater Boston, about 15 miles southwest of downtown Boston....
       (U.S. Headquarters)
    • Sun Microsystems
      Sun Microsystems

      Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a multinational corporation vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982....
      , in Burlington
      Burlington, Massachusetts

      Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 22,876 at the 2000 census....
    • Teradyne
      Teradyne

      Teradyne , a United States company, is a supplier of automatic test equipment . As of 2005, it has the largest marketshare in the System-on-a-chip market....
      , in North Reading
      North Reading, Massachusetts

      North Reading is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,837 at the 2000 census....
       (Headquarters)


  • Major companies inside Boston (Inside I-95 (Route 128))
    • Bain & Company
      Bain & Company

      Bain & Company is a management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts....
        (headquarters)
    • The Boston Consulting Group
      Boston Consulting Group

      The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm, founded by Bruce Henderson in 1963. It has 66 offices in 38 countries, and its current CEO is Hans-Paul B?rkner....
       (headquarters)
    • Fidelity Investments
      Fidelity Investments

      Fidelity Investments is an investment company. It consists of two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research LLC , founded in 1946 and serving North America, and Fidelity International Limited , spun off in 1969 and serving the rest of the world....
       (headquarters)
    • The Gillette Company, now owned by Procter & Gamble
      Procter & Gamble

      Procter & Gamble Co. is a Fortune 500, United States multinational corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, that manufactures a wide range of Fast moving consumer goods....
        (headquarters)
    • Houghton Mifflin
      Houghton Mifflin

      Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay....
       (headquarters)
    • John Hancock Financial Services, Inc
      John Hancock Insurance

      John Hancock Financial is a loose term for a major United States insurance company which existed, in various forms, from its founding on April 21, 1862, until its acquisition in 2004 by the Canadian insurance company Manulife Financial....
      , now the United States division of Canada's Manulife Financial
      Manulife Financial

      Manulife Financial Corporation , also known as The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, is a major Canada Insurance company and financial services provider....
    • Liberty Mutual
      Liberty Mutual

      Liberty Mutual Group , is an United States insurance company. Founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1912, Liberty Mutual is the sixth-largest property insurance and casualty insurance insurer in the U.S., based on 2006 direct written premiums....
       (headquarters)
    • New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.
      New Balance

      New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. is a footwear manufacturer based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1906 as the New Balance Arch Support Company....
       (headquarters)
    • Putnam Investments
      Putnam Investments

      Putnam Investments was founded in 1937 by George Putnam. At the same time, he founded its first mutual fund offering, The George Putnam Fund of Boston....
       (headquarters)
    • State Street Corporation (headquarters)


Sports

ClubSportLeagueStadium
Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
Ice Hockey
Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
National Hockey League
National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
TD Banknorth Garden
TD Banknorth Garden

TD Banknorth Garden is a sports arena in Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after its sponsor, TD Banknorth , and is often simply called The Garden, or the traditional Boston Garden and formerly known as the FleetCenter and the Shawmut Center....
 (Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
)
Boston Cannons
Boston Cannons

The Boston Cannons are a professional men's field lacrosse team based in Boston, Massachusetts. Since the 2001 season, they have played in Major League Lacrosse....
Lacrosse
Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport originated by several tribes of Native Americans in the United States. There are four distinct versions of the modern game: men's field lacrosse, women's field lacrosse, men's box lacrosse and intercrosse ....
Major League Lacrosse
Major League Lacrosse

Major League Lacrosse is a professional men's field lacrosse league that is made up of 5 teams in the United States and 1 team in Canada. The league currently has all six teams in one conference....
Nickerson Field
Nickerson Field

Nickerson Field is a stadium on the site of Braves Field, in Boston, Massachusetts the former home of the National League Atlanta Braves baseball team who are now located in Atlanta, Georgia....
 (Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
)
Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics are a professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, playing in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
Basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
National Basketball Association
National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
TD Banknorth Garden
TD Banknorth Garden

TD Banknorth Garden is a sports arena in Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after its sponsor, TD Banknorth , and is often simply called The Garden, or the traditional Boston Garden and formerly known as the FleetCenter and the Shawmut Center....
 (Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
)
Boston Red Sox
Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in . The Red Sox are a member of the Major League Baseball?s American League East. Since , the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park....
Baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
 (AL
American League

The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada....
)		Fenway Park
Fenway Park

Fenway Park is a stadium located near busy Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood. The stadium's address is 4 Yawkey Way....
 (Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
)
New England Patriots
New England Patriots

The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats" by sports writers and fans, are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
Football
American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
National Football League
National Football League

The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
 (American Football Conference
American Football Conference

The American Football Conference is one of the two conferences of the National Football League . The AFC was created after the NFL AFL-NFL Merger with the American Football League in early 1970....
)		Gillette Stadium
Gillette Stadium

Gillette Stadium is the home stadium for the New England Patriots American football team and the New England Revolution Football team. Located in Foxborough, Massachusetts, the facility opened in 2002, replacing Foxboro Stadium....
 (Foxboro)
New England Revolution
New England Revolution

The New England Revolution, nicknamed the Revs, is a professional association football club based in Foxborough, Massachusetts, that participates in Major League Soccer....
SoccerMajor League Soccer
Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer is the top-flight professional soccer league based in the United States, overseen by the United States Soccer Federation. The league is comprised of 15 teams, 14 in the U.S....
Gillette Stadium
Gillette Stadium

Gillette Stadium is the home stadium for the New England Patriots American football team and the New England Revolution Football team. Located in Foxborough, Massachusetts, the facility opened in 2002, replacing Foxboro Stadium....
 (Foxboro)


Annual sporting events include:
  • The Boston Marathon
    Boston Marathon

    The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon sporting event hosted by the city of Boston, Massachusetts, on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April....
    , which follows a course from Hopkinton
    Hopkinton, Massachusetts

    Hopkinton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, just over west and south of Boston, Massachusetts. The town is best known as the starting point of the Boston Marathon, held annually on Patriot's Day in April, and as the home of computer storage firm EMC Corporation....
     to Boston
  • The Head of the Charles Regatta
    Head of the Charles Regatta

    The Head of the Charles Regatta, also known as HOCR or HOTC, is a rowing race held on the penultimate complete weekend of October each year on the Charles River, which separates Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....


Higher education

A long time center of higher education, the area includes many community colleges, two-year schools, and internationally prominent undergraduate and graduate institutions. The graduate schools include highly regarded schools of law, medicine, business, technology, international relations, public health, education, and religion. Additionally, Phillips Academy
Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy is a co-educational University-preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9-12. The school is located in Andover, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, 25 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts....
, one of the country's premier prep schools, is located in Andover, and boasts several famous alumni including former Chief Justice of the United States Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an United States jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly...
 and former U.S. President George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Bush held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan and Director of Central Intelligence under Gerald R....
.

Historical figures and celebrities

  • John Adams
    John Adams

    John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
     - Declaration of Independence draft writer, 2nd President of the United States
    President of the United States

    The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
  • John Quincy Adams
    John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams was an Foreign relations of the United States and Politics of the United States who served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from March 4, 1825 to March 4, 1829....
     - 6th President of the United States
    President of the United States

    The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
  • Samuel Adams
    Samuel Adams

    Samuel Adams was a statesman, Political philosophy, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in Province of Massachusetts Bay, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of Republicanism in the United States that shaped the political cul...
     - brewer, patriot
  • Aerosmith
    Aerosmith

    Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
     - rock band
  • Boston (band)
    Boston (band)

    Boston is an United States Rock music band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists....
     - rock band
  • Ben Affleck
    Ben Affleck

    Ben Affleck is an United Statesn actor, film director and screenwriter. He became known in the mid 1990s, after his involvement in the film Mallrats , and has since become an Academy Award winner for his screenplay in Good Will Hunting in 1997....
     - actor
  • Casey Affleck
    Casey Affleck

    Casey Affleck is an Academy Award-, Screen Actors Guild Awards - and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actor who has acted in films such as Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven , The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Gone Baby Gone....
     - actor
  • Louisa May Alcott - writer
  • Susan B. Anthony
    Susan B. Anthony

    Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent United States civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce History of women's suffrage in the United States....
     - suffragist
  • Johnny Appleseed
    Johnny Appleseed

    Johnny Appleseed, born John Chapman , was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois....
     (John Chapman) - pioneer nurseryman
  • Jeff Bagwell
    Jeff Bagwell

    Jeffrey Robert Bagwell is a former Major League Baseball first baseman, who spent his entire career with the Houston Astros. After retirement as a player, he remains with the Astros as an assistant to the General Manager....
     - Major League Baseball player
  • Clara Barton
    Clara Barton

    Clarissa Harlowe Barton was a pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. She has been described as having a "strong and independent spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross....
     - founder of the American Red Cross
    American Red Cross

    The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States, and is the designated U.S....
  • Robert Benchley
    Robert Benchley

    Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From his beginnings at the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style o...
     - humorist
  • Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
     - classical conductor and composer
  • Elizabeth Bishop
    Elizabeth Bishop

    Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and writer. She was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, and a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956....
     -- poet
  • Michael Bloomberg
    Michael Bloomberg

    Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an United States businessman and philanthropist, and the current Mayor of New York City. He was listed as the eighth-richest American, with a net worth of US$30 Billion, in the Forbes 400 on Sept....
     -- mayor of New York City
  • Eric Bogosian
    Eric Bogosian

    Eric Bogosian is an United States actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist....
     - actor
  • Anthony "Spag
    Spag's

    Spag's was, from 1934 to 2004, a discount department store on Route 9 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. The store was considered an early pioneer of discount retailing and was notable for its longtime resistance to accepting charge cards and offering plastic shopping bags and shopping carts ....
    " Borgatti -- early discount retailer
  • Anne Bradstreet
    Anne Bradstreet

    Anne Bradstreet was an English-American writer, the first notable American poet, and the first woman to be published in Colonial history of the United States....
     - first American poet
  • Bobby Brown
    Bobby Brown

    Bobby Brown is a Grammy Award-winning United States contemporary R&B singer-songwriter and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award....
     - R&B singer, songwriter
  • Charles Bulfinch
    Charles Bulfinch

    Charles Bulfinch was an early United States architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a architect....
     - architect
  • George Herbert Walker Bush - 41st President of the United States
    President of the United States

    The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
  • Steven Carell - actor/comedian
  • John Cena
    John Cena

    John Felix Anthony Cena is an United States actor, hip hop musician, and Professional wrestling. He is employed by World Wrestling Entertainment and performs on their WWE Raw WWE Brand Extension, though he is also making appearances on for the WWE Friday Night SmackDown brand....
    - professional wrestler
  • Dane Cook
    Dane Cook

    Dane Jeffrey Cook is an American stand-up comedian and film actor. He released three comedy albums: Harmful If Swallowed, Retaliation , and Rough Around The Edges: Live From Madison Square Garden....
     - comedian
  • John Singleton Copley
    John Singleton Copley

    John Singleton Copley was an United States painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish....
     - painter
  • Elias James Corey
    Elias James Corey

    Elias James Corey is an United States organic chemistry. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis....
     - chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Pri...
  • E. E. Cummings
    E. E. Cummings

    Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an Poetry of the United States, painter, essayist, author, and playwright....
     - poet
  • Matt Damon
    Matt Damon

    Matthew Paige Damon is an American actor and philanthropist. He won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for his screenwriting in Good Will Hunting, and was nominated for his lead performance in the same film....
     - actor
  • Bette Davis
    Bette Davis

    Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
     - actress
  • Dispatch
    Dispatch (band)

    Dispatch was an United States Indie rock/American folk music folk jam band formed at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, Vermont. They were active from 1996 to 2002, and have come together twice for reunion concerts, first in 2004, and again in 2007....
     - rock band
  • James Dole
    James Dole

    James Drummond Dole , also known as the Pineapple King, was a United States industrialist who developed the pineapple industry in Hawaii and established the Hawaiian Pineapple Company....
     - founder of Dole Food Company
  • Rachel Dratch
    Rachel Dratch

    Rachel Susan Dratch is an United States actress and comedienne, perhaps best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1999 to 2006....
     - comedian and Saturday Night Live
    Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
     alum
  • The Ducky Boys
    The Ducky Boys

    The Ducky Boys are a street punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. Since forming in 1995 in the Charlestown, Massachusetts neighborhood of Boston, the band has spanned over ten years with two tenures that have led to four full-length albums and over 50 songs....
     - band
  • The Dropkick Murphys - an Irish punk band
  • Michael Dukakis
    Michael Dukakis

    Michael Stanley Dukakis is an American Democratic Party politician, former Governor of Massachusetts, and was the Democratic Party United States presidential election, 1988....
     - former Massachusetts Governor, Democratic candidate in the 1988 election
  • Mary Dyer
    Mary Dyer

    Mary Barrett Dyer was an English Puritan turned Religious Society of Friends who was hanging in Boston, Massachusetts for repeatedly defying a law banning Quakers from the colony....
     - religious martyr
  • T. S. Eliot
    T. S. Eliot

    'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
     - poet
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the transcendentalism movement in the early 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s....
     - transcendentalist
  • William Finn
    William Finn

    William Alan Finn is an award-winning United States composer and lyricist, especially of musical theater....
     - Award winning composer and lyricist
  • Doug Flutie
    Doug Flutie

    Douglas Richard Flutie is a retired American football and Canadian football quarterback. Flutie played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the National Football League, Canadian Football League, and United States Football League....
     - former professional football player
  • Esther Forbes
    Esther Forbes

    Esther Forbes was an United States of America novelist and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal.Forbes was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, the fifth of six children born to Harriette Merrifield and William Trowbridge Forbes....
     - writer
  • Abby Kelley
    Abby Kelley

    Abby Kelley Foster was an American abolitionism and radical social Reform movement#United States reform movements of the 1840s - 1930s active from the 1830s to 1870s....
     Foster - women's rights activist, Abolitionist
  • Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
     - statesman, scientist
  • Buckminster Fuller
    Buckminster Fuller

    Richard Buckminster ?Bucky? Fuller was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. He was the second president of Mensa International....
     - inventor
  • Margaret Fuller
    Margaret Fuller

    Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, more commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist associated with the American transcendentalism movement....
     - writer, women's rights activist
  • Nicholas Gage
    Nicholas Gage

    Nicholas Gage is a Greek American author and investigative journalism.He is most famous for two books of autobiographical memoirs, the best selling Eleni and A Place for Us....
     - writer, producer
  • Peter Gammons
    Peter Gammons

    Peter Gammons is an American sportswriting, media personality, and National Baseball Hall of Fame honoree....
     - MLB writer
  • Elbridge Gerry
    Elbridge Gerry

    Elbridge Thomas Gerry was an United States statesman and diplomat. As a Democratic-Republican he was selected as the fifth Vice President of the United States of America, serving under James Madison, from March 4, 1813 until his death a year and a half later....
     - Vice President of the United States, signer of the Declaration of Independence
    Declaration of independence

    This article is about declarations of independence in general. Specific declarations of independence are listed below in alphabetical order. For the painting of this name, see Trumbull's Declaration of Independence....
    , namesake of the practice of gerrymandering
    Gerrymandering

    Gerrymandering is a form of Redistribution in which electoral district or constituency boundaries are deliberately modified for electoral advantage....
  • Tom Glavine
    Tom Glavine

    Thomas Michael Glavine is an United States left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Atlanta Braves.During the 1990s, Glavine was one of the win pitchers in the National League....
     - MLB pitcher
  • Robert Goddard - inventor of liquid fuel rocket - Clark University
    Clark University

    Clark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887 by the industrialist Jonas Clark, it is the oldest institution founded as an all-graduate university....
  • Anthony Michael Hall
    Anthony Michael Hall

    Michael Anthony Hall , known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer and film director who starred in several successful teen-oriented films of the 1980s....
     - Brat Pack (movies)
    Brat Pack (movies)

    The Brat Pack is a nickname given to a group of young actors and actresses who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented :Category:Coming-of-age films in the 1980s....
     actor
  • G. Stanley Hall
    G. Stanley Hall

    Granville Stanley Hall was a pioneering United States psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory....
     - pioneering psychologist
  • John Hancock
    John Hancock

    John Hancock was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as President of the Continental Congress of the Second Continental Congress and was the first Governor of Massachusetts of the Massachusetts....
     - statesman, 1st Governor of Massachusetts
    Governor of Massachusetts

    The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the U.S. state of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democratic Party Deval Patrick....
  • Matt Hasselbeck
    Matt Hasselbeck

    Matthew Hasselbeck is an American football quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 1998 NFL Draft....
     - NFL quarterback
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne....
     - writer
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
    Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an United States minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism....
     -- editor, Abolitionist
  • Nichole Hiltz
    Nichole Hiltz

    Nichole Hiltz is an American actress. She has been in such films as May , A Midsummer Night's Rave, and the Sci Fi Channel movie All Souls Day ....
     - actress, The Riches
    The Riches

    The Riches was a Golden Globe Award- and Emmy Award-nominated FX Networks television series starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver....
    , Shallow Hal
    Shallow Hal

    Shallow Hal is a 2001 in film romantic comedy film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black and Jason Alexander. It was directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, and filmed in and around Charlotte, North Carolina as well as Sterling, Massachusetts and Holden, Massachusetts....
  • Abbie Hoffman
    Abbie Hoffman

    Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was a social and political activism in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party . Later he became a fugitive from the law, living under an alias and working as an enviromentalist following a conviction for dealing cocaine....
     - political activist
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century and is considered a member of the Fireside Poets....
     - writer
  • Winslow Homer
    Winslow Homer

    Winslow Homer was an United States landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art....
     - painter
  • Henry Way Kendall
    Henry Way Kendall

    Henry Way Kendall was an American physicist.He was born in Boston and attended Deerfield Academy and later Amherst College. He taught for much of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
     - physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics

    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
  • Edward M. Kennedy - United States Senator
    United States Senate

    The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
  • John F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy

    John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
     - 35th President of the United States
    President of the United States

    The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
  • Robert F. Kennedy
    Robert F. Kennedy

    Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also called RFK, was an United States politician. He was United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964 and a United States Senator from New York from 1965 until his Robert F....
     - US Attorney General, Senator, 1968 presidential candidate
  • Jack Kerouac
    Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac was an American author, poet and Painting. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation....
     - writer
  • John F. Kerry
    John Kerry

    John Forbes Kerry is the Junior Senator United States Senate from Massachusetts and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.As the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party , he was defeated by 34 electoral votes in the United States presidential election, 2004 by the Republican Party incumbent President of the United States...
     - United States Senator
    United States Senate

    The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
    , Democratic candidate in the 2004 election
  • Stanley Kunitz
    Stanley Kunitz

    Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1974 and again in 2000....
     -- Poet Laureate
  • Amos Lawrence
    Amos Lawrence

    Amos Lawrence, was an American merchant and philanthropist. He was the son of Samuel Lawrence , a Revolutionary War officer, and the founder of Groton Academy , where Amos was educated....
     - philanthropist
  • Dennis Leary - actor and philanthropist
  • Matt LeBlanc
    Matt LeBlanc

    Matthew Steven "Matt" LeBlanc is an American actor, known for his role as Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcoms Friends and Joey ....
     - Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
     actor
  • Jay Leno
    Jay Leno

    James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno is an Emmy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, television host and writer, who succeeded Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1992....
     - comedian
  • Howie Long
    Howie Long

    Howard Michael "Howie" Long is a former United States American football player who played as a defensive team. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000 NFL season....
     - NFL Hall of Famer, Fox NFL sports commentator
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an United States educator and poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride ", The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline"....
     - poet
  • Robert Lowell
    Robert Lowell

    Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946....
     - poet
  • Rocky Marciano
    Rocky Marciano

    Rocky Marciano , born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1952 to 1956. Marciano, with forty-three knockouts to his credit , remains the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career....
     - world heavyweight boxing champion
  • Cotton Mather
    Cotton Mather

    Cotton Mather . A.B. 1678 , A.M. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 , was a socially and politically influential History of New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer....
     - theologian, writer
  • Christa McAuliffe
    Christa McAuliffe

    Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe , better known simply as Christa McAuliffe n?e Sharon Christa Corrigan, was an United States teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire....
     - astronaut
  • Craig Mello
    Craig Mello

    Craig Cameron Mello is an United States biologist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts....
     - Nobel laureate University of Massachusetts Medical School
    University of Massachusetts Medical School

    The University of Massachusetts Medical School is one of five campuses of the University of Massachusetts system and is home to three schools: the #School of Medicine, the #Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the #Graduate School of Nursing; a #biomedical research enterprise; and a range of #public service initiatives throughout the stat...
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
    The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

    The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American third wave ska band from Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.Formed in 1983, the Bosstones are credited with the creation of the ska-core genre, a form of music that mixes elements of third wave ska and hardcore punk....
     - Musicians
  • Merton Miller
    Merton Miller

    Merton Howard Miller shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William Forsyth Sharpe....
     - economist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
    Nobel Prize in Economics

    The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions in the field of economics and is generally considered one of the most prestigious awards in that field....
  • Agnes Moorehead
    Agnes Moorehead

    Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
     - actress
  • Samuel F. B. Morse
    Samuel F. B. Morse

    Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an United States Painting of portraits and historic scenes, the Creativity of a single wire telegraph system, and Morse Code....
     - inventor of the telegraph
  • Joseph E. Murray - surgeon, performer of the first kidney transplant and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
  • Leonard Nimoy
    Leonard Nimoy

    Leonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. He is best known for playing the character of Spock on Star Trek: The Original Series, an American television series that ran for three seasons from 1966 to 1969, in addition to reprising the role in several movie sequels....
     - actor
  • Edward Norton
    Edward Norton

    Edward Harrison Norton is an United States film actor, screenwriter and Film director. In 1996, his supporting role in the courtroom drama Primal Fear garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role....
     - actor
  • Conan O'Brien
    Conan O'Brien

    Conan Christopher O'Brien is an Emmy Award-winning United States television host, television writer and comedian, best known as host of NBC Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993-2009....
     - comedian
  • John O'Hurley
    John O'Hurley

    John O'Hurley is an United States actor and television personality who since 2006, has been the host of the game show Family Feud. He is best known for his recurring role as Jacopo Peterman on the List of years in television#1990s NBC Situation comedy Seinfeld....
     - tv personality, actor, game show host
  • Charles Olson
    Charles Olson

    Charles Olson , was an important 2nd generation United States poetry modernist poetry poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the The New American Poetry 1945-1960, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain poets, the Beat generation poets, and the San Francis...
     - poet
  • Tip O'Neill
    Tip O'Neill

    Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. was an Politics of the United States. O'Neill was an outspoken Democratic Party and influence member of the United States Congress, serving in the United States House of Representatives for 34 years and representing two congressional districts of Massachusetts....
     - longest serving Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
    Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

    The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The current Speaker is Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic Party representing California's 8th congressional district....
  • Douglass C. North - economist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
    Nobel Prize in Economics

    The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions in the field of economics and is generally considered one of the most prestigious awards in that field....
  • Theodore Parker
    Theodore Parker

    Theodore Parker was an United States Transcendentalism and Reform movement Religious minister of the American Unitarian Association church. A reformer and abolitionism, his own words and quotes he popularized would later influence Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr....
     - transcendentalist
  • Timothy Pickering
    Timothy Pickering

    Timothy Pickering was a politician from Massachusetts who served in a variety of roles, most notably as the third United States Secretary of State, serving in that office from 1795 to 1800 under Presidents George Washington and John Adams....
     - first United States Postmaster General
    United States Postmaster General

    The United States Postmaster General is the executive head of the United States Postal Service. The office, in one form or another, is older than both the United States Constitution and the United States Declaration of Independence....
  • Gregory Pincus - co-inventor of the birth control pill Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology
    Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology

    The Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research is a non-profit biomedical research institute based in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.The foundation was established as an independent research center under the name Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in 1944 by Hudson Hoagland and Gregory Pincus....
  • Pixies - rock band
  • Sylvia Plath
    Sylvia Plath

    Sylvia Plath was an United States poet, novelist and short story writer.Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas....
     - writer
  • Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
     - writer
  • Amy Poehler
    Amy Poehler

    Amy Meredith Poehler is an United States comedian and actress. She was a cast member and parody news anchor on the NBC television program Saturday Night Live from 2001 until shortly after the birth of her child in 2008....
     - actress and Saturday Night Live
    Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
     cast member
  • Paul Revere
    Paul Revere

    Paul Revere was an American silversmith and a Patriot in the American Revolution.He was glorified after his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord, and Revere's name and his "midnight ride" are well-known in the United States as a patriotic symbol....
     - revolutionary
  • Harold Shapero
    Harold Shapero

    Harold Samuel Shapero is an United States composer....
     - composer
  • William Forsyth Sharpe
    William Forsyth Sharpe

    William Forsyth Sharpe is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
     - economist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
    Nobel Prize in Economics

    The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions in the field of economics and is generally considered one of the most prestigious awards in that field....
  • Louis Sullivan
    Louis Sullivan

    Louis Henri Sullivan was an United States architect, and has been called the "father of modern architecture." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago school , was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come...
     - architect
  • Donna Summer
    Donna Summer

    Donna Summer is an United States singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music.Summer was trained as a gospel music singer prior to her introduction to the music industry....
     - singer
  • Lucy Stone
    Lucy Stone

    Lucy Stone was a prominent United States suffragist. Stone was the first recorded American woman to keep her own last name upon marriage and the first woman in Massachusetts to receive a college degree....
     - suffragist
  • James Taylor
    James Taylor

    James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
     - singer
  • Marshall Walker "Major" Taylor - cycling champion
  • Isaiah Thomas
    Isaiah Thomas

    Isaiah Thomas , was an United States History of American newspapers and author. He performed the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Worcester, Massachusetts and reported the first account of the Battles of Lexington and Concord....
     revolutionary, newspaper publisher
  • Henry David Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau was an United States author, poet, Natural history, tax resistance, development criticism, surveyor, historian, philosophy, and leading Transcendentalism....
     - writer
  • Uma Thurman
    Uma Thurman

    Uma Karuna Thurman Hawke , better known as Uma Thurman, is an American actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedy film and dramas to science fiction film and Action movie Thriller s....
     - actress
  • Rev. Dr. Soliny Védrine
    Rev. Dr. Soliny Védrine

    Rev. Dr. Soliny V?drine is the director and founder of Haitian Ministries International which strives to strengthen and support the work of Haitian churches in Greater Boston, the United States, Canada, the Bahamas, and Haiti....
     - founder of Haitian Ministries International
  • Barbara Walters
    Barbara Walters

    Barbara Jill Walters...
     - newscaster, journalist
  • Mark Wahlberg
    Mark Wahlberg

    Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA-winning American actor, former rapper and producer of film and television. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch....
     - actor
  • Donnie Wahlberg
    Donnie Wahlberg

    Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Jr. is an United States singer, actor and film producer. He is a member of the popular 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block and is the older brother of fellow actor/musician Mark Wahlberg....
     - actor
  • Mike Wallace (journalist)
    Mike Wallace (journalist)

    Mike Wallace is an United States journalism. Wallace has been a correspondent for CBS' 60 Minutes since its debut in 1968. During his career at 60 Minutes, he has interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers, including Deng Xiaoping, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anw...
     - journalist of 60 Minutes
    60 Minutes

    or 60 Minutes 60 Minutes is an United States investigative television newsmagazine on United States television, which has run on CBS News since 1968....
     fame
  • Artemis Ward - Revolutionary War general
  • Daniel Webster
    Daniel Webster

    Daniel Webster was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests....
     - statesman
  • James McNeill Whistler
    James McNeill Whistler

    'James Abbott McNeill Whistler' was an United States-born, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake"....
     - painter
  • Eli Whitney
    Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known as the inventor of the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum South....
     - inventor of the cotton gin
    Cotton gin

    A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates the cotton fibers from the seedpods and the sometimes sticky seeds, a job previously done by hand....
  • Samuel Wilson
    Samuel Wilson

    Samuel Wilson was a meat-packer in Troy, New York whose name is purportedly the source of the personification of the United States of America known as "Uncle Sam"....
     - Uncle Sam
  • Ted Williams
    Ted Williams

    Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams also nicknamed The Kid, the Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame and The Thumper, was an United States left fielder in Major League Baseball....
     - Boston Red Sox player
  • Alicia Witt
    Alicia Witt

    Alicia Roanne Witt is an United States film, stage, and television actress. She played Nola Falacci on the series Law & Order: Criminal Intent....
     - actress
  • Malcolm X
    Malcolm X

    Malcolm X , also known as Hajji Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans....
     - human rights activist

    • Transportation

    See also: Boston transportation
    Boston transportation

    The Boston transportation system includes roadway, rail, air, and sea options for passenger and freight transit. The Massachusetts Port Authority operates the Port of Boston, which includes a container shipping facility in South Boston, and Logan International Airport in East Boston....


    Highways

    • Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Interstate 93
      Central Artery

      The Central Artery, officially the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway, is a section of freeway in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, designated as Interstate 93, U.S....
       within Boston)
    • Interstate 95
      Interstate 95 in Massachusetts

      Interstate 95 is a highway in length in the state of Massachusetts. The highway enters from the state of Rhode Island in Attleboro, Massachusetts and travels in a northeasterly direction to the junction with Route 128 in Canton, Massachusetts....
      : North to New Hampshire
      New Hampshire

      New Hampshire is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States of America. The state was named after the southern English Counties of England of Hampshire....
       and Maine
      Maine

      The State of Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, New Hampshire to the southwest, the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast....
      ; south to Providence, Rhode Island
      Providence, Rhode Island

      Providence is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States....
       and beyond. Largely concurrent
      Concurrency (road)

      A concurrency, overlap, or coincidence in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other road number....
       with MA-128
    • U.S. 1
      U.S. Route 1 in Massachusetts

      In the U.S. state of Massachusetts, U.S. Route 1 is a major north-south state highway through Boston, MA. The portion of US 1 south of Boston is also known as the Boston-Providence Turnpike, and portions north of the city are known as the Northeast Expressway and the Newburyport Turnpike....
    • Interstate 93
      Interstate 93

      Interstate 93 is an Interstate Highway in the New England section of the United States. Its southern terminus is in Canton, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the Boston metropolitan area, at Interstate 95 in Massachusetts ; its northern terminus is near St....
      : North to New Hampshire
      New Hampshire

      New Hampshire is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States of America. The state was named after the southern English Counties of England of Hampshire....
      ; south to Canton
      Canton, Massachusetts

      Canton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 20,775 at the 2000 census. Canton is part of Greater Boston, about 15 miles southwest of downtown Boston....
    • U.S. Route 3
      U.S. Route 3

      U.S. Route 3 is a north-south United States highway that runs from its southern terminus in Cambridge, Massachusetts through New Hampshire to its terminus near Third Connecticut Lake at the Canada?United States border, where the road continues north as Quebec Route 257....
    • Massachusetts Route 2: Northwest and west
    • The Massachusetts Turnpike
      Massachusetts Turnpike

      The Massachusetts Turnpike is the easternmost 138-mile stretch of Interstate 90. The Turnpike begins at the western border of Massachusetts in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts connecting with the New York State Thruway#Berkshire Connector portion of the New York State Thruway....
       (Interstate 90
      Interstate 90

      Interstate 90 is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It is the northernmost coast-to-coast interstate. Its western terminus is in Seattle, Washington, at 4th Avenue S....
      ): West to Framingham, Massachusetts
      Framingham, Massachusetts

      Framingham is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 66,910, making it the most populous New England town in New England....
       and beyond
    • Massachusetts Route 9: Western suburbs
    • Massachusetts Route 24: South toward Newport, Rhode Island
      Newport, Rhode Island

      Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, United States, about 30 miles south of Providence, Rhode Island....
    • Massachusetts Route 3: Southeast through South Shore to Cape Cod
      Cape Cod

      Cape Cod, often referred to as simply the Cape, is a peninsula in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States....
    • Massachusetts Route 128 (I-95/I-93): Circumferential Highway
      Beltway

      A beltway, loop , ring road, or orbital motorway is a Circumferential Highway found around or within many cities.Beltway, orbital motorway, perimeter loop, beltline, and similar terms refer to an expressway/motorway/freeway style standard road that often originally enclosed the built up area and was later...
       (close to Boston)
    • Interstate 495: Circumferential (farther from Boston)
      • Route 128 is sometimes regarded as the unofficial boundary of the Greater Boston region, especially to the north and south. When the name Greater Boston is used in a more inclusive sense, I-495 is sometimes regarded as the boundary.


    Bridges and tunnels

    • Callahan Tunnel
      Callahan Tunnel

      The Lieutenant William F. Callahan Tunnel is one of four tunnels beneath Port of Boston. The tunnel's overall length is 1,545 m. It carries motor vehicles from Boston, Massachusetts's North End, Boston to Logan International Airport and Massachusetts State Highway 1A in East Boston....
    • Sumner Tunnel
      Sumner Tunnel

      The Sumner Tunnel is a road tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. It carries traffic under Boston Harbor in one direction, from Logan International Airport and Massachusetts State Highway 1A in East Boston....
    • Ted Williams Tunnel
      Ted Williams Tunnel

      The Ted Williams Tunnel, also known as the Williams Tunnel, is the name of the third harbor tunnel under Boston Harbor, the Sumner Tunnel and Callahan Tunnels being the other two, that connects South Boston with Boston's Logan International Airport....
    • Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel
      Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel

      The Tip O'Neill Tunnel is a highway tunnel built as part of the Big Dig in Boston, Massachusetts. It carries the Central Artery underneath downtown Boston, and is numbered as Interstate 93, U.S....
    • Tobin Bridge
      Tobin Bridge

      The Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans more than two miles from Charlestown, Massachusetts to Chelsea, Massachusetts over the Mystic River in Massachusetts....
    • Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge


    Airports

    • Logan International Airport
      Logan International Airport

      General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport in the East Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States , is one of the 20 busiest airports in the United States, with over 26 million passengers a year....
       in Boston
    • Manchester-Boston Regional Airport
      Manchester-Boston Regional Airport

      Manchester-Boston Regional Airport , commonly referred to simply as "Manchester Airport," is a public airport located three miles south of the central business district of Manchester, New Hampshire on the county line of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire and Rockingham County, New Hampshire counties....
       in Manchester, New Hampshire
      Manchester, New Hampshire

      Manchester is the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the largest city of northern New England, an area composed of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine....
    • T. F. Green Airport
      T. F. Green Airport

      T. F. Green Airport , also known as Theodore Francis Green State Airport, is a public airport located in Warwick, Rhode Island, six miles south of Providence, Rhode Island, in Kent County, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, United States....
       in Providence, Rhode Island
      Providence, Rhode Island

      Providence is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States....
    • Hanscom Field
      Hanscom Field

      Hanscom Field , also known by its full name Laurence G. Hanscom Field, is a public airport located in Bedford, Massachusetts, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
       in Bedford
    • Norwood Memorial Airport
      Norwood Memorial Airport

      Norwood Memorial Airport is a public-use airport located two miles east of the central business district of Norwood, Massachusetts, a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
    • Worcester Regional Airport


    Rail and bus

    Mbta District
    * Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
    Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

    The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is "a body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts formed in 1964 to finance and operate most bus, Rapid transit, commuter rail and ferry systems in the greater Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, area....
     (MBTA, The T)
      • Red Line
        Red Line (MBTA)

        The Red Line is a rapid transit line operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority running roughly north-south through Boston, Massachusetts into neighboring communities....
        : Cambridge
        Cambridge, Massachusetts

        Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
        –Braintree and Boston (Mattapan
        Mattapan, Massachusetts

        Mattapan is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Historically a section of neighboring Dorchester, Massachusetts, Mattapan became a part of Boston when Dorchester was annexed in 1870....
        )
      • Orange Line
        Orange Line (MBTA)

        The Orange Line is one of the four subway lines of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. It extends from Forest Hills in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts in the south to Oak Grove in Malden, Massachusetts in the north....
        : Boston (Jamaica Plain
        Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

        Jamaica Plain, commonly known as JP, is an historic neighborhood of 4.4 sq. miles in Boston, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States....
        )–Malden
        Malden, Massachusetts

        Malden is a suburban city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 56,340 at the 2000 census....
      • Green Line
        Green Line (MBTA)

        The Green Line is a light rail/streetcar system run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in the Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts area of the United States....
        : Cambridge–Brookline
        Brookline, Massachusetts

        Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston, Massachusetts and Newton, Massachusetts....
         and Newton
        Newton, Massachusetts

        The City of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts,is a large residential suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, which abuts it on the east....
      • Blue Line
        Blue Line (MBTA)

        The Blue Line is one of four rapid transit lines of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. It runs from northeast to southwest, extending from Wonderland in Revere, Massachusetts to Bowdoin near Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts....
        : Boston–Revere
        Revere, Massachusetts

        Revere is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. It borders Winthrop, Massachusetts, East Boston, Massachusetts and Chelsea, Massachusetts to the south, Everett, Massachusetts and Malden, Massachusetts to the west, Saugus, Massachusetts and Lynn, Massachusetts to the north, Melrose, Massachusetts to the northwe...
      • Silver Line
        Silver Line (MBTA)

        The Silver Line is the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's sole Bus Rapid Transit line, running in two, unconnected sections, from Dudley Square in Roxbury to downtown Boston, Massachusetts and from South Station to several points in South Boston, Boston, Massachusetts and to Logan Airport in East Boston, Massachusetts....
         South Station–Logan Airport and Downtown–Dudley Square
        Dudley Square (MBTA station)

        Dudley Square is a ground-level bus station in Dudley Square, Roxbury, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, served by local buses of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and their Silver Line bus rapid transit service....
    • MBTA Commuter Rail
      MBTA Commuter Rail

      The Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company Co. serves as the regional rail arm of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, in the United States....
      • Old Colony Lines serving Plymouth County
      • Providence/Stoughton Line
        Providence/Stoughton Line

        The Providence/Stoughton Line is a line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system running southwest from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The main line was originally built by the Boston and Providence Rail Road, and now carries service between Boston and Providence, Rhode Island....
         serving northern Bristol County, connecting to Providence, Rhode Island
        Providence, Rhode Island

        Providence is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States....
      • Fairmount Line
        Fairmount Line

        The Fairmount Line or Dorchester Branch is a line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Except for a short portion in Milton, Massachusetts, it lies entirely within Boston, progressing in a southwesterly trajectory, passing through the neighborhoods of Dorchester, Massachusetts, Mattapan, Massachusett...
         shuttle service from South Station
      • Franklin Line
        Franklin Line

        The Franklin Line of MBTA Commuter Rail travels in a northeasterly direction toward Boston, Massachusetts from Franklin, Massachusetts. Its stops include : Forge Park/495 , Franklin/Dean College , Norfolk , Walpole , Plimptonville , Windsor Gardens , Norwood Central , Norwood Depot , Islington , Dedham Corporate Center , Endicott , Readville...
         serving western Norfolk County
      • Greenbush Line
        Greenbush Line

        The Greenbush Line is a branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail system. The line restores service along the New Haven Railroad's Greenbush Branch, from downtown Boston, Massachusetts through the towns of Braintree, Massachusetts, Weymouth, Massachusetts, Hingham, Massachusetts, Cohasset, Massachusetts, and Scituate, Massachusetts on the South Shor...
         serving Boston's South Shore
      • Needham Line
        Needham Line

        The Needham Line is a branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running west from downtown Boston, Massachusetts through the Boston neighborhoods of...
         serving Boston suburbs and Needham
        Needham, Massachusetts

        Needham is an affluent town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, its population was 28,911 at the United States Census, 2000....
      • Framingham/Worcester Line
        Framingham/Worcester Line

        The Framingham/Worcester Line is a railroad line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running west from Boston, Massachusetts to Worcester, Massachusetts, though some trains terminate at Framingham, Massachusetts....
         serving southwestern Middlesex County, connecting to Worcester
        Worcester, Massachusetts

        Worcester is a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts....
      • Fitchburg Line
        Fitchburg Line

        The Fitchburg Line is an MBTA line that runs from Boston, Massachusetts North Station to Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The line is along the tracks of the former Fitchburg Railroad, which was a railroad line across northern Massachusetts, United States, leading to and through the Hoosac Tunnel....
         serving northwestern Middlesex County, connecting to Fitchburg
        Fitchburg, Massachusetts

        Fitchburg is a city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 39,102 at the 2000 census. Fitchburg is home to Fitchburg State College as well as 19 public and private elementary and high schools....
      • Lowell Line
        Lowell Line

        The Lowell Line is a railroad line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running north from Boston, Massachusetts to Lowell, Massachusetts. Originally built as the Boston and Lowell Railroad, and later operated as part of the Boston and Maine Railroad's Southern Division, the line was one of the first railroads in North America and the first majo...
         serving northern Middlesex County
      • Haverhill/Reading Line
        Haverhill/Reading Line

        The Haverhill/Reading Line is a branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running north from downtown Boston, Massachusetts through the cities and towns of...
         and Newburyport/Rockport Line
        Newburyport/Rockport Line

        The Newburyport/Rockport Line is a branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running northeast from downtown Boston, Massachusetts towards Cape Ann and the Merrimack Valley, serving the North Shore....
         serving Essex County
    • Amtrak
      Amtrak

      The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971 to provide Inter-city rail train#Passenger trains service in the United States....
       service to New York City
      New York City

      The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
       and Washington, D.C.
      Washington, D.C.

      Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
    • Downeaster
      Downeaster

      The Downeaster is a 116-mile passenger train route operated by Amtrak, connecting North Station in Boston, Massachusetts, to Portland, Maine....
       service to Maine
      Maine

      The State of Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, New Hampshire to the southwest, the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast....
       from North Station


    The first railway line in the United States was in Quincy. See Neponset River
    Neponset River

    The Neponset River is a river in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. The headwaters of the Neponset are at the Neponset Reservoir in Foxborough , Massachusetts, near the Gillette Stadium....
    .

    The following Regional Transit Authorities have bus service that connects with MBTA commuter rail stations:

    • Brockton Area Transit Authority
      Brockton Area Transit Authority

      Brockton Area Transit Authority is a public, non-profit organization in Massachusetts, charged with providing public transportation to the Brockton area, consisting of the city of Brockton, Massachusetts and the adjoining towns of Abington, Massachusetts, Avon, Massachusetts, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Easto...
    • Cape Ann Transportation Authority
      Cape Ann Transportation Authority

      The Cape Ann Transportation Authority is a public, non-profit organization in Massachusetts, charged with providing public transportation to the Cape Ann area, consisting of the city of Gloucester, Massachusetts and the adjoining towns of Essex, Massachusetts, Ipswich, Massachusetts and Rockport, Massachusetts....
    • Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority
      Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority

      The Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority oversees and coordinates public transportation in the areas of Attleboro, Massachusetts and Taunton, Massachusetts and nearby areas....
    • Lowell Regional Transit Authority
      Lowell Regional Transit Authority

      The Lowell Regional Transit Authority is a public, non-profit organization in Massachusetts, charged with providing public transportation to the Greater Lowell area....
    • Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority
      Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority

      The Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority is a public, non-profit organization in Massachusetts, charged with providing public transportation to an area consisting of the cities and towns of Amesbury, Massachusetts, Andover, Massachusetts, Boxford, Massachusetts, Georgetown, Massachusetts, Groveland, Massachusetts, Haverhill, Massachus...
    • MetroWest Regional Transit Authority
      MetroWest Regional Transit Authority

      The MetroWest Regional Transit Authority is a regional public transit authority in the state of Massachusetts providing bus and paratransit service to 11 communities in the Boston, Massachusetts MetroWest ....
    • Montachusett Regional Transit Authority
      Montachusett Regional Transit Authority

      The Montachusett Regional Transit Authority is one of Massachusetts' 15 regional transit authorities. It is a public, non-profit organization in Massachusetts, charged with providing public transportation to an area consisting of the cities of cities of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Leominster, Massachusetts and Gardner, Massachusetts, and the a...
    • Worcester Regional Transit Authority
      Worcester Regional Transit Authority

      Worcester Regional Transit Authority is a public, non-profit organization charged with providing public transportation to the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, Massachusetts and the surrounding towns....


    Ocean transportation

    • Port of Boston
      Port of Boston

      The Port of Boston is a major seaport located in Boston Harbor and adjacent to the Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest port in Massachusetts as well as being one of the principal ports on the east coast of the United States....
       (Massport)
    • Cape Cod Canal
      Cape Cod Canal

      The Cape Cod Canal is a man-made waterway traversing the narrow neck of land that joins Cape Cod to mainland Massachusetts.Part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the canal is roughly 17.4 miles long and connects Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south....


    Geography

    • River
      River

      A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
      s
      • Charles River
        Charles River

        The Charles River is a river in Massachusetts, United States. It travels through 22 cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts, from Hopkinton, Massachusetts to Boston, Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean....
      • Mystic River
        Mystic River

        The Mystic River is the name of a short river in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Its name derives from the Wampanoag word "muhs-uhtuq", which translates to "big river"....
      • Neponset River
        Neponset River

        The Neponset River is a river in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. The headwaters of the Neponset are at the Neponset Reservoir in Foxborough , Massachusetts, near the Gillette Stadium....
      • Concord River
        Concord River

        The Concord River is a tributary of the Merrimack River in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. The river, approximately 15 mi long, drains a small rural and suburban region northwest of Boston, Massachusetts....
      • Merrimack River
        Merrimack River

        The Merrimack River is a -long river in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset River and Winnipesaukee River rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Newburyport, Massachusetts....
    • Hill
      Hill

      A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain, in a limited area. Hills often have a distinct Summit , although in areas with Escarpment a hill may refer to a particular section of scarp slope without a well-defined summit ....
      s
      • Great Blue Hill
        Great Blue Hill

        Great Blue Hill is a hill of 635 feet located within the Blue Hills Reservation in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts, 10 miles southwest of Boston, Massachusetts....
      • Bellevue Hill
        Bellevue Hill, Boston

        Bellevue Hill is the highest natural point in the city of Boston and Suffolk County, Massachusetts. It rises to a height of 330 feet above sea level....