Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897.

Boston Common became the first public park in America in 1634.

The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an aeroplane.

The name Boston is a shortening of St Botolph's Town, but the original name for Boston was Tremontaine, in honor of the three hills that were the first thing you would see on the Shawmut Peninsula.

The famous Boston Tea Party was raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor (16 December 1773) in which Boston colonists threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company.

GIRL POWER! Bostonian Elizabeth Bishop won the Pulitzer Prize in 1955 for her combination of North & South and A Cold Spring. She wrote about her childhood (she was orphaned at five) as well as the world around her.