History

Boston is a city with a lot of historical importance. Boston is a peninsula that has been inhabited for at least 2,000 years, originally by Native Americans, who called the land Shawmut. In the 1600s, English settlers arrived, and began calling the region New England (a name we still use today for the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island). Many famous Americans, such as Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams, studied in Boston.

Culture

Universities

Harvard University was the first university in the U.S. It is also one of the best and probably the most famous college in the country! But Boston is