La péninsule de Shawmut (en anglais : Shawmut Peninsula) est la péninsule et le promontoire sur lequel la ville de Boston, dans l'État du Massachusetts, a été construite. La péninsule, d'une superficie initiale de seulement 3,19 km2, a plus que doublée en raison des actions de récupération de terre tout au long du XIXe siècle .

Media in category "Shawmut Peninsula" The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total. A new & complete map of the city of Boston, with part of Charlestown, Cambridge & Roxbury (2674505265) ...

The Shawmut Peninsula is in the Indian language the name of the headland on which the city of Boston in the state of Massachusetts in the United States was built. The peninsula, which originally measured just under 789 acres (3.2 km²), was almost doubled in area through land reclamation measures in the 19th century.

Shawmut Peninsula is the promontory of land on which Boston, Mass. was built. The name is thought to derive from a Native Americam term for "living fountains." The first settled was William Blaxton (Blackstone), an Episcopalian minister. He had been on the peninsula living by himself for several years when John Winthrop leading a Puritan fleet ...

Other articles where Shawmut Peninsula is discussed: Boston: Area of the colonial town: The hilly Shawmut Peninsula, upon which Boston was settled, originally was almost completely surrounded by water. It was connected with mainland Roxbury to the south by a narrow neck of land along the line of present-day Washington Street. To the west of the neck were great …

Sep 15, 2016 · Detail from a 1692 French map of the Shawmut Peninsula / Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Boston became Boston 386 years ago. On September 16 (or 17, depending on who you ask) the small village of ...

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