Boston Common Garden
Boston Common Gardens is the oldest public park in America and it was then built as a ground for feeding purposes of sheep and cattle of the people of that area. William Blackstone started the park in the year of 1622 and in 1630 his companion Puritans joined him to share the process of administration of the land.
This historical land area of 44 acres has been used as a training field of British army forces and as a place where pirates, witches and criminals were hanged the past history. It has also been used as a very famous public speaking place. For instance, Sir Martin Luther King and Pope John Paul II have had their public speeches here and it has been a main site where the feminist revolution was encouraged. emerald necklace boston.
Boston Common is one piece of the Emerald necklace which is a combination of public parks in Boston and it has been the place where about two hundred people rioted against the food shortage of the city on 19th May 1713. And in the recent time over hundred protesters gathered to the Common ground in1965 in order to riot against the Vietnam War and after that, the second protest took place in the same place with more than 100,000 people on 15th October 1969.
And today it allows the visitors to hold both formal and informal events and to take pleasure in a musical concert or a classic performance of Shakespeare. In the year of 1987 the Common Park was declared as a "National Historic Landmark" in the USA and on 21st October 2006 this national landmark was the place where a new world record was established. It was the event of lighting 30,128 "Jack-o'-lanterns" at once illuminating the entire park breaking the previous record of 28,952 lanterns in 2003. emerald necklace boston.
Some of the regular events that take place in the Boston Common can be mentioned as the Boston Lyric Opera, the Freedom Rally and the most popular concert "Shakespeare on the Common". More over the Massachusetts State House, Boston Public Garden and the Freedom Trail are some of the main attractions in Boston that boost up the number of tourists coming to the city and to hotels in Boston. emerald necklace boston.
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