BOSTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00792R000700150001-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: PHOTO

"flub of the universe," Ihutonians
~dl their city, m:,gnif,na Oliver
Mendell Holmes's more modest is-
sessment that it, State Ilouse was
"the hub of the solar system" Oric-
inally a serawnv neck of land poking
seaward, Boston fleshed out during,
the 19th century a; dcceloper., tilled
in the mar,hy acreage of Bask Bay
and the South End. Foundations for
the city's schools, hospitals, and great
financial institutions were laid then
or strengthened.
Annexing communitie, like East
and South Boston, Charlestown and
Rnxbur Boston h6 ind,,,pendcr-.1-
minded neighbors such as Cambridge
amid Brookline to themsckes. Today
an encircling ring of a hundred cities
and t?wns dwarfs Boston pr(,per,
,hose 660,000 peop;e are only part
of the more than'three million inhab-
itants in the metropolitan area
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