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1630, Boston became its capital. It is a pioneering city:

Boston Latin School, the first free high school in the United States, founded in 1635, and a year later, Harvard, the country's first university. In 1704, the first colonial newspaper was printed in Boston, in 1795 the first American trade union was organized, and in 1897 the country's first subway was opened in Boston.

In Boston, not only did the War of Independence begin, but the first African American regiment was also formed to participate in the American Civil War. Waves of immigration, especially Irish in the middle of the 18th century and Italian in the early 20th century, brought European influences to the city.

Boston remains at the forefront of higher education today, and its universities are the cradle of world-renowned businesses in biotechnology, medicine and finance.

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any maps or maps. These places are associated with the

period of the United States' struggle for independence from the British mother country.

You will see Massachusetts State House, a cemetery where famous citizens are buried, a monument to the founding father Benjamin Franklin, who studied at the city's first school, the site of the "Boston massacre", Old State House, from the balcony of which the US Declaration of Independence was first publicly read, Old South Meeting House, which gave birth to the idea of ​​"Boston Tea", the home of Paul River, who warned the townspeople about the coming of the British troops.

connects the city center with the Cambridge campus. It is

an arched bridge, 32 meters wide and 539 meters long, which is simultaneously a railroad, automobile and pedestrian bridge. 11 steel arched spans are supported by stone supports. The longest span in the middle of the bridge is 57.5 meters long and 8.1 meters high.

Locals call it "the bridge of salt and pepper shakers", as the four turrets that adorn the highest span of the bridge resemble huge salt and pepper shakers.

The first bridge on this site was built in 1793. The current bridge was erected in 1906, which became known as the Cambridge Bridge, and in 1927 it was renamed Longfellow Bridge. Henry W. Longfellow is an 18th century American poet who wrote the poem "The Bridge" in 1845, dedicated to the very first bridge across the Charles River.

The Longfellow Bridge.