Final Project: Historic Boston Reference Materials

For assignment 8, I have researched regarding Boston at the time of the American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party. Also, I have looked for historically accurate maps of Boston at that time, along with information about scale, GIS data, man-made structures, and natural structures.

American Revolution 1775-83

Boston Tea Party 12.16.1773

Map of Boston around 1700s

Map of Boston around 1800s

1769 Price Great Town

A New Plan of Ye Great Town of Boston

Map of Boston with Scale 1

Map of Boston with Scale 2

Map of Boston with Scale 3

GIS; the map below shows Boston in 1775

It was originally a small peninsula encircled by the Atlantic OCean, Charles River, Mystic River, and Chelsea Creek. Filling in the surrounding mud flats began in the early 1800s, and continued until the early 1900s

Old South Church 

State House

View of Boston from the Harbor

Reference:

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history

http://www.history-map.com/picture/000/Boston-1700s-in.htm

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/maps/bostonmap/

http://fineartedward.com/Boston%20Documents.htm

http://huttohistory.wikispaces.com/The+Boston+Massacre