Shawmut Peninsula
Peninsula that Boston, Massachusetts, is built upon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shawmut Peninsula is the promontory of land on which Boston, Massachusetts was built. The peninsula, originally a mere 789 acres (3.19 km2) in area,[1] more than doubled in size due to land reclamation efforts that were a feature of the history of Boston throughout the 19th century.
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