Historical Markers in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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 Copps 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
Breeds 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
Copps Hill and the American Revolution
Copps 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
Kings 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 Reveres 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 Bostons 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 Copps 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 Copps Hill Burying Ground
Welcome to Granary Burying Ground
Welcome to Kings 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
About Suffolk County
Suffolk County Timeline
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.
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.
Suffolk County Timeline
This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey 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.