Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Abbotsford Adams-Nervine Asylum African Meetinghouse All Saints' Church Allston Congregational Church Ames Building Appleton, Nathan, Residence Arlington Street Church Armory of the First Corps of Cadets Arnold Arboretum Ascension-Caproni Historic District Austin, Francis B., House Ayer, Frederick, Mansion Back Bay Historic District Baker Congregational Church Baker, Sarah J., School Beach-Knapp District Beacon Hill Historic District Bedford Building Bellevue Standpipe Bellingham Square Historic District Bellingham-Cary House Benedict Fenwick School Benjamin Silverman Apartments Bennington Street Burying Ground Berger Factory Bigelow School Blackstone Block Historic District Blake and Amory Building Blake, James, House Boston African American National Historic Site Boston Athenaeum Boston Common Boston Common and Public Garden Boston Consumptives Hospital Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company Boston Fish Pier Historic District Boston Light Boston National Historical Park Boston National Historical Park Boston Naval Shipyard Boston Police Station Number One-Traffic Tunnel Administration Building Boston Public Garden Boston Public Library Boston Transit Commission Building Boston Young Men's Christian Association Boston Young Men's Christian Union Bowditch School Boylston Building Brighton Center Historic District Brighton Evangelical Congregational Church Brook Farm Building at 138-142 Portland Street Buildings at 825-829 Blue Hill Avenue Bulfinch Triangle Historic District Bunker Hill Monument Bunker Hill School Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex Cartoof & Sherman Apartments Cathedral of St. George Historic District Central Congregational Church Charles Playhouse Charles River Reservation (Speedway)-Upper Basin Headquarters Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church Charlestown Heights Chelsea Garden Cemetery Chelsea Square Historic District Chestnut Hill Reservoir Historic District Christ Church Church Green Buildings Historic District Church of Christ Clapp Houses Codman Building Codman Square District Collins Building Columbia Road-Bellevue Street Historic District Columbia Road-Devon Street Historic District Columbia Road-Strathcona Road Historic District Commonwealth Pier Five Compton Building Congregation Adath Jeshurun Congregation Agudath Shalom Congress Street Fire Station Copp's Hill Burial Ground Copp's Hill Terrace Crawford Street Historic District Crowninshield House Custom House District Cyclorama Building Davidson, Sarah, Apartment Block Dearborn School Dill Building Dillaway School Dimock Community Health Center Complex District 13 Police Station Dorchester Heights Historic District Dorchester Heights National Historic Site Dorchester North Burying Ground Dorchester Park Dorchester Pottery Works Dorchester South Burying Ground Dorchester Temple Baptist Church Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District (Boundary Increase) Douglass, Frederick, Square Historic District Downtown Chelsea Residential Historic District Dudley Station Historic District Eagle Hill Historic District East Boston High School, Old Egleston Substation Eliot Burying Ground Eliot Congregational Church Eliot Hall Elm Hill Park Historic District Engine House No. 34 Esmond Street Historic District Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital Evergreen Cemetery Fairview Cemetery (Additional Documentation) Faneuil Hall Faneuil, Peter, School Fenway Park Fenway Studios Fenway-Boylston Street District Fields Corner Municipal Building Filene's Department Store First Baptist Church First Church of Jamaica Plain First Congregational Church of Hyde Park Forest Hills Cemetery Fort Banks Mortar Battery Fort Independence Fort Point Channel Historic District Fort Warren Fowler-Clark-Epstein Farmstead Fox, I.J., Building Frances and Isabella Apartments Francis Street-Fenwood Road Historic District Fulton-Commercial Streets District Fulton-Commercial Streets Historic District (Boundary Increase) Gardner, Isabella Stewart, Museum Garrison, William Lloyd, House Garrison, William Lloyd, School Gibson House Goldsmith Block Goodwin, Ozias, House Governor Shirley Square Historic District Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England Greenville Street Historic District Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Church Gridley Street Historic District Haffenreffer Brewery Hale, Edward Everett, House Harding, Chester, House Harrison Square Historic District Harriswood Crescent Harvard Avenue Fire Station Harvard Avenue Historic District Harvard Stadium Haskell, Edward H., Home for Nurses Hayden Building Headquarters House Hibernian Hall Highland Spring Brewery Bottling and Storage Buildings Home for Aged Couples Hoosac Stores 1 & 2-Hoosac Stores 3 House at 1 Bay Street House at 17 Cranston Street Howe, Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward, House Hoxie, Timothy, House Immaculate Conception Rectory International Trust Company Building Intervale Street-Blue Hill Avenue Historic District Intervale Street-Columbia Road Historic District John Adams Courthouse John Eliot Square District Joshua Bates School Kimball, C. Henry, House King's Chapel Kittredge, Alvah, House Lawrence Avenue Historic District Lawrence Model Lodging Houses Leather District Liberty Tree District Locke-Ober Restaurant Long Island Head Light Long Wharf and Customhouse Block Loring, Harrison, House Loring-Greenough House Lower Roxbury Historic District LUNA (tugboat) Lyman, Theodore, School Malcolm X-Ella Little Collins House Mariner's House Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Historical Society Building Massachusetts Mental Health Center Massachusetts School of Art Massachusetts Statehouse McKay, Donald, House Metropolitan Theatre Mission Hill Triangle Historic District Monument Square Historic District Monument Square Historic District Moreland Street Historic District Morton Street, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston Mount Hope Cemetery Mount Pleasant Historic District Nathan Warnick Apartments Naval Hospital Boston Historic District Nazing Court Apartments Nell, William C., House Neponset Valley Parkway, Metorpolitan Park System of Greater Boston New England Conservatory of Music New Riding Club Newspaper Row Newton, Edward B., School Nix's Mate Daybeacon North Terminal Garage Oak Square School Ohabei Shalom Cemetery Old City Hall Old Corner Bookstore Old Harbor Reservation Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston Old North Church Old South Church in Boston Old South Meetinghouse Old State House Old West Church Otis, (First) Harrison Gray, House Otis, (Second) Harrison Gray, House Paine Furniture Building Park Street District Parkman, Francis, House Peabody, The Phipps Street Burying Ground Piano Row District Pierce House Pierce-Hichborn House Pilgrim Congregational Church Publicity Building Quincy Grammar School Quincy Market Revere Beach Reservation Revere Beach Reservation Historic District Revere City Hall and Police Station Revere, Paul, House Richards, Ellen H. Swallow, House Richardson Block Riviera, The Ronan, Mary, T., School ROSEWAY (schooner) Roslindale Baptist Church Roslindale Congregational Church Roslindale Substation Roughan Hall Roxbury High Fort Roxbury Highlands Historic District Roxbury Presbyterian Church Rumney Marsh Burying Ground Russia Wharf Buildings Saint Augustine Chapel and Cemetery Saint Mark's Episcopal Church Samuel Edelman Apartments Savin Hill Historic District Sears Roebuck and Company Mail Order Store Sears' Crescent and Sears' Block Sears, David, House Second Brazer Building Second Church in Boston Sherman Apartments Historic District Shirley-Eustis House Shubert, Sam S., Theatre Slade Spice Mill South Boston Boat Clubs Historic District South End District South End District (Boundary Increase) South Station Headhouse St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Complex St. Luke's and St. Margaret's Church St. Mary's Episcopal Church St. Paul's Church St. Stephen's Church Stearns, R. H., House Stony Brook Reservation Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Great Boston MPS Students House Suffolk County Jail Sumner Hill Historic District Sumner, Charles, House Symphony and Horticultural Halls Symphony Hall Temple Place Historic District Terminal Storage Warehouse District Textile District Thane Street Historic District Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church Town Hill District Tremont Street Subway Trinity Church Trinity Neighborhood House Trinity Rectory Trotter, William Monroe, House Truman Parkway-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston U.S.S. CONSTITUTION Union Oyster House Union Wharf United Shoe Machinery Corporation Building United State Post Office, Courthouse, and Federal Building Upham's Corner Market US Post Office Garage USS CASSIN YOUNG (destroyer) Vermont Building VFW Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston Walton and Roslin Halls Washington Street Theatre District West Street District Westerly Burial Ground Wigglesworth Building Wilbur Theatre Winthrop Building Winthrop Center/Metcalf Square Historic District Winthrop Parkway, Metropolitan Parkway System of Greater Boston Winthrop Shore Dr., Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston Winthrop, Deane, House Wirth, Jacob, Buildings Woodbourne Historic District Youth's Companion Building YWCA Boston

1935 20 Pinckney Street 40-42 Mt. Vernon Street 45 Milk Street 54th Infantry - 55th Infantry - 5th Cavalry 66 Mt. Vernon Street 87 Mt. Vernon Street 94 Charles Street Building A New View of an Old Ship A Riot, the Massacre, and the Tea Party Abraham Shapiro African Americans at Copp’s Hill African Meeting House American Redoubts American Soldiers Killed June 17, 1775 Anne Whitney Arrival of the Frigate Arbella Bakery Beacon Hill Beginning of Jordan Marsh Bellingham-Cary Mansion Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Birthplace of Charles Sumner Birthplace of Ralph Waldo Emerson Birthplace of the Telephone Bleacher Bar Boston Athenaeum Boston Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Boston Civil War Memorial Boston Common Boston Irish Famine Memorial Boston Molasses Flood Boston Naval Shipyard Boston Public Latin School Boston Spanish American War Memorial Boston Transcript Building Boston Women's Memorial Boston Young Men's Christian Union Boston, the Navy Yard, and the War of 1812 Breed’s Hill Bunch of Grapes Tavern Bunker Hill Burying Ground Bunker Hill Monument Captain John Pulling Jr. Captain Robert Keayne Carl Yastrzemski Central Congregational Church Charlestown Heights Charlestown Navy Yard Charlestown Navy Yard Charlestown Training Field / Winthrop Square Charlestown World War II Memorial Cheers Chelsea Spanish American War Memorial Chester Harding House Christ Church City of Chelsea City of Chelsea City of Revere City of Revere Civil War Memorial City Square: Continuity and Change Clough House Coastal Mines Colonel Thomas Cass and the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry Colonial Craftsmen Commander Barry Carle Commodore John Barry Confederate POWs Congregational House Connecticut Gate Converse Copp’s Hill and the American Revolution Copp’s Hill Burying Ground Court of the Assistants Custom House Custom House D.L. Moody David Walker Deacon Larkin House Deane Winthrop House Defense System Derne Street Dorchester Heights Dorchester Heights Dorchester Heights • Thomas Park Dorchester Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dry Dock 1 Ebenezer Hancock House Edgar Allan Poe Edward A. Filene Edward Everett Hale Electric Fire Alarm System 1852 Elizabeth Peabody Bookstore Emerson Majestic Theatre Enlisted Men Escape! Family Memorials Faneuil Hall Faneuil Hall Federal Building Fenway Park First Commercial Dental Laboratory in America Flags at Sea Flour and Grain Exchange Fort Warren Franklin Place From Colonial Burying Ground to Victorian Park Garden Court Street Gardner Museum Gate One, Charlestown Navy Yard Gen. Henry Knox Trail Gen. Henry Knox Trail General Casimir Pulaski General Joseph Hooker General Tadeusz Kosciuszko George Francis Parkman George Robert White George Thorndike Angell Governor Winthrop House Granary Burying Ground Gravestone Art: Skulls, Wings, and Other Symbols Gravestone Carving Great House Green Dragon Tavern Harrison Gray Otis House Harry Houdini Huguenots, Women, and Tories In Commemoration James Otis Jean Lefebvre Decheverus John Albion Andrew John Boyle O'Reilly John Glover of Marblehead John Greenwood / Ann Pollard / Harriot Keziah Hunt / Charlotte Saunders Cushman John Hancock Residence John Hurd House John Quincy Adams John Smibert John Telemachus Hilton John Tileston / To Those Men of the North End John Winthrop - First House in Boston Site John Winthrop / Nicholas Upsall / Cotton Mather / John Hull Jordan Marsh Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Josiah and Abiah Franklin King's Chapel King's Chapel and Beyond King’s Chapel Burial Ground Krystle Campbell Lewis Wharf, 1835 Liberty and Union Liberty Tree Block Life and Death in Colonial Boston Life and Work in the Navy Yard 1812 Louisburg Square Magoun Counting-House Site Mansion of Gov. Hutchinson Manufactory House Site Margaret Deland Maria W. Stewart Mary Dyer Massachusetts Gate Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment Men of the Boston Naval Shipyard Metcalf Square Michael S. Dukakis South Station Transportation Center Monument to Ether Moses Pierce-Hichborn House Mrs. Gardner's Address New England Courant New Fenway Park New Hampshire Gate North Church Lanterns North Church Tower North End Veterans Memorial North Sea Mine Force Memorial North Square North Square Houses, 1715 North-East Corner of the Redoubt Old South Church Old South Meeting House Old South Meeting House Old West Church Omni Hotels: The Parker House On these Heights On This Site Stood the Home of John Singleton Copley Oneida Football Club of Boston Parade Ground Park Street Church Park Street Congregational Church Patrick Andrew Collins Patrolman Andrew B. Cuneo Paul Revere Paul Revere & William Dawes Paul Revere Buried in this Ground Paul Revere House Paul Revere House Paul Revere Mall Paul Revere’s Landing Pilgrims and Patriots Ping On Alley Poe Returning to Boston Political Prisoners Pope John Paul II's Visit to Boston Powder Magazine Power System of Boston’s Rapid Transit, 1889 Proclamation of the "Bells" Journey Public Latin School Rear Admiral John Ancrum Winslow Memorial Rebecca Lee Crumpler Robert Lee Frost Robert McCloskey Robert Newman Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee Samuel Adams Samuel Adams Samuel Adams House Site Samuel Tucker / Increase Mather / Edward Holyoke / Edward Everett / Christian Gullager Sargent's Folly Serving the Fleet Seventeenth Century Burials Seventeenth Century Copp’s Hill Signal Lanterns of Paul Revere Sir William Phips / Joseph Warren / John Manley / Edmund Hartt Site of the English High School Site of the First Meeting House in Boston Built A.D. 1632 Site of the House of Robert Treat Paine Soldiers and Sailors Monument Soldiers and Sailors of Ward 2 South Station South-East Corner of the Redoubt Spring Lane St. Stephen's Church St. Stephen's Church Teammates Ted Williams The Battle of Bunker Hill The Battle of Chelsea Creek The Bell-in-Hand The Boston Massacre The Breastwork The Changing Yard The Charles River Esplanade The Chevalier de Saint Sauveur The Cocoanut Grove The Common / Charles Street The Common / The Freedom Trail / America's First Subway The Continental Wingate Company Building The Decisive Day has come on which the fate of America depends... The First Governor The Freedom Trail The Freedom Trail The Freedom Trail The Gerrymander The Goal The Great Spring The Historic Beacon Hill District The Hull Mint The Ice King, the Castle Captain, and the She-Merchant The Lafayette Mall The Land The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge The Liberator Site The Line of Rail Fence and Grass Protection The Long Lane Meeting House The Mason Houses The Mathers The Men of the North End The Mess The Monument The Old Corner Bookstore The Old North Church The Old State House The Parker House The Paul Revere House The Province House The Rail Fence and Grass Line The Rogers Building The Salutation Tavern / The Green Dragon Tavern The Sculptor The Training Field's Struggle for Survival The Union The Waterfront Then and Now / The Custom House The Yard as Home This Cannon This Column Stands on Union! Thomas Handasyd Perkins House, 1833-1854 Three Centuries of Use & Transformation To Those Men of the North End / Thomas Cass Tombs and Monuments Tragic Events Tremont Street Subway Tremont Temple Trinity Church Trinity Church Trinity Church in the City of Boston Tudor Wharves Tyrannosaurus rex U.S. Custom House U.S.S. Boston Union Oyster House United States Gate Unusual Gravestones USS Constitution USS Leyte (CV-32) Van Ness Street Player Banners Victims of the Boston Massacre Vietnam/Korean Conflict Memorial Vilna Shul Welcome to Boston's Old City Hall Welcome to Copp’s Hill Burying Ground Welcome to Granary Burying Ground Welcome to King’s Chapel Burying Ground Wendell Phillips West Church William Billings William Dawes Jr. William Ellery Channing William Ellery Channing Residence Winthrop Building Working in the Yard You are now my enemy and I am yours... "A state of perfect chaos" "Old Ironsides" in Dry Dock 1
Suffolk County, located in eastern Massachusetts, has a long and rich history dating back to the early colonial period. The area was originally inhabited by the Massachusett Native American tribe, who lived along the shores of the Charles River and Boston Harbor. In 1620, the Pilgrims arrived in nearby Plymouth, marking the beginning of European settlement in the region.

In 1630, the settlement of Boston was founded by Puritan colonists led by John Winthrop. Over the next few decades, Boston became a major center of trade and commerce. Suffolk County was officially established in 1643, encompassing the towns of Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester. The county was named after Suffolk in East Anglia, England, the birthplace of many of the settlers.

During the American Revolution, Suffolk County played a significant role. The Boston Tea Party, a protest against British taxation, occurred in Boston Harbor in 1773. Battles such as the Battle of Bunker Hill took place in the county, as the British sought to regain control of the city. After the war, Boston continued to thrive as an important port and center of industry.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Suffolk County experienced significant growth and development. The Industrial Revolution led to the expansion of manufacturing, with industries such as textiles and shoes becoming prominent. The county also underwent a major urban renewal effort in the mid-20th century, resulting in the construction of modern buildings and infrastructure.

Today, Suffolk County remains a vibrant and diverse region, home to the city of Boston and many other thriving communities. It continues to be a hub of culture, education, and innovation, attracting residents and visitors from around the world.
Brief timeline of the history of Suffolk County, Massachusetts:

  • Suffolk County, MA was established in 1643.
  • In 1774, the county played a significant role in the American Revolution, with events such as the Boston Tea Party.
  • During the 19th century, Suffolk County became an important center for manufacturing and trade.
  • In the early 20th century, Suffolk County experienced an influx of immigrants, particularly from Europe.
  • In 2004, Suffolk County became the first county in Massachusetts to adopt the Community Preservation Act.

This timeline provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of Suffolk County, Massachusetts.