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    343944; -71.065972 The Boston Neck or Roxbury Neck was an isthmus, a narrow strip of land connecting the then-peninsular city of Boston to the mainland city...
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    particularly blocked the Charlestown Neck, the only land access to Charlestown, and the Boston Neck, the only land access to Boston, which was then a peninsula...
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  • meeting day for the Church in Boston) 1659, and the gallows stood on Boston Neck, the narrow isthmus of land that connected Boston to the mainland. They spoke...
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    Day observance. The headquarters of Reebok is in South Boston. Geographically, Dorchester Neck was an isthmus, a narrow strip of land that connected the...
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    skirmishes. The narrow Boston Neck, which at that time was only about a hundred feet wide, impeded Washington's ability to invade Boston, and a long stalemate...
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    (probably the first in the Thirteen Colonies). Boston Common took over from the gibbet outside the gate of Boston Neck as the town execution grounds and was used...
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    army's choice of the land route, proceeding southwest from Boston by the peninsula of "Boston Neck", while two lanterns would signal the route "by water"...
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    The original shoreline of Boston Neck crosses in front of 40 St. George Street, and tapers to the narrowest point of the Neck at Dover Street. Blackstone...
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    2015. "Vintage (early 1800s) map of Boston Neck, showing an "Orange Street" running SW to it from peninsular Boston of the 1770s". Archived from the original...
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    Varnum is a Rhode Island Army National Guard training facility in the Boston Neck area of Narragansett, Rhode Island. During World War II it was Fort Varnum...
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    waist of the strip of land known as Boston Neck. Originally a single street traversed the Neck, joining peninsular Boston to the mainland. This was termed...
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    MBTA subway (redirect from Boston subway)
    Orange Street, an early name for the street that ran southwards down the Boston Neck to connect the Shawmut Peninsula to the mainland, for what is now part...
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    means of survival. Boston was previously connected to mainland Massachusetts by a narrow isthmus called Boston Neck or Roxbury Neck, and this was home...
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    by a narrow isthmus, Boston Neck, and was surrounded by Boston Harbor and Back Bay, an estuary of the Charles River. This neck of land was surrounded...
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    Battles of Lexington and Concord (category Battles of the Boston campaign)
    nearby towns. Dawes covered the southern land route by horseback across Boston Neck and over the Great Bridge to Lexington. Revere first gave instructions...
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    The Dunes Club is a historic private beach club at 137 Boston Neck Road in Narragansett, Rhode Island. The club occupies 28 acres (11 ha) of land fronting...
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    isthmus called "the neck". Roads to Everett (previously a ferry), Medford, and Cambridge and Somerville fanned out from the Charlestown Neck. An extension of...
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    also serve as a toll road connecting Boston to Watertown, bypassing Boston Neck. The dam prevented the natural tides from flushing sewage out to sea...
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  • was an American firearms manufacturer and inventor. Marlin was born in Boston Neck, near Windsor Locks, Hartford County, Connecticut, as the son of Mahlon...
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    Spinal lock (redirect from Neck crank)
    Boston Crab Submission in MMA". 30 September 2017. Figure 4 Neck Crank. Extension-distraction of the neck. Neck Extension. Hyperextension of the neck...
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    decline. Robinson's father ended his opposition and left his community of Boston Neck to bring Hannah home. As Rowland Robinson brought his daughter home,...
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    West Boston Bridge in 1792 connecting Cambridge directly to Boston, making it no longer necessary to travel eight miles (13 km) through the Boston Neck, Roxbury...
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    from Houghs Neck instead of Boston, to evade capture by the British. Houghs Neck is named for Atherton Hough, previously mayor of Boston, England, who...
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    Press. p. 227. Edward Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (1996) p. 86. "Boston Neck Gallows, Colonial Execution Place for Quakers"...
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    Mary Dyer (category 17th century in Boston)
    returned to Boston and was sent to the gallows in 1659, having the rope around her neck when a reprieve was announced. She returned once more to Boston the following...
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    Diadophis punctatus, commonly known as the ring-necked snake or ringneck snake, is a rather small, harmless species of colubrid snake found throughout...
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    Street, it's now modern-day Washington Street, running southwards off the Boston Neck towards the village of Roxbury. The Middle Post Road was the shortest...
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  • The Boston Celtics (/ˈsɛltɪks/ SEL-tiks) are an American professional basketball team based in Boston. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball...
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    The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as just simply the Boston bombing, was a domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual...
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    lantern was to notify Charlestown that the British Army would march over Boston Neck and the Great Bridge, and two were to notify them that the troops were...
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