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Massachusetts Landmarks
Massachusetts Tourist attractions, famous Massachusetts landmarks and other Massachusetts points of interest.
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Before 1986, the arboretum was an overgrown apple orchard, which was privately owned. The town purchased the land and created the Center Park Conservation Area. In 1990, the area was officially designated as the Acton Arboretum.
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This National Historical Park contains the home of presidents John and John Quincy Adams. It features the house, the surrounding farmland and several other buildings, including the Stone Library.
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Also know as the First African Baptist Church, this Beacon Hill landmark is the oldest black church building in the United States. The building was dedicated on December 6, 1806.
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The Arboretum was founded in 1872 when Harvard College was given a portion of the estate of James Arnold. Additional donations increased the size of the Arboretum, which now occupies 265 acres (107 hectares) of land.
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The Boston Public Library is the largest municipal public library in the United States and is the third-largest library in the country. It was the first public library to allow people to borrow books and other materials and take them home to read and use.
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The square was created following the 1858 filling of most of the Back Bay Fens. Named for the American portraitist John Singleton Copley, the square is surrounded by some of Boston's most well-known buildings.
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The Copley Square Hotel was built in 1891 and is Boston’s second-oldest hotel in continuous operation. The seven-floor hotel is mainly constructed of brick, and recently was given a thorough remodeling.
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The building is situated on 6.7 acres (27,000 m²) of land on top of Beacon Hill in Boston. The dome is topped with a pine cone, symbolizing both the importance of Boston's lumber industry in the early colonial days.
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The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has over 400,000 objects in its collection, the second largest permanent museum collection in the United States after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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It's not an official National Monument, but it was renamed to show that it is dedicated to the entire nation and to keep it from being confused with another monument in the same town called "Pilgrim Monument."
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The Pilgrim Monument was built between 1907 and 1910 to commemorate the first landfall of the Pilgrims in 1620 and the signing in Provincetown Harbor of the Mayflower Compact.
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