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Boston Public Garden

Dating to 1839, the Boston Public Garden is recognized as the first public botanical garden in the United States, with formal paths, plantings, a lagoon, and Swan Boats.

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Boston Public Garden
Photograph · Rhododendrites / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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What this meant before

18371837Boston Public Garden enters the civic record here.
Established
1837
Address
4 Charles Street, Boston
Online
Official site ↗
Public connections
1
Sources
2
Plan your visit
Websitefriendsofthepublicgarden.org/our-parks/the-garden ↗
Get there
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In the public graph 1 typed relationship

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Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk

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An unexpected connection

Boston Public Garden is linked, through the graph, to Boston — city, 14 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.

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NearbyA few minutes’ walk away
The Freedom TrailAttraction
From the Federal & antebellum eraOf the same period
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity
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Reviewed byDurjoy Ace Bhattacharjya
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High confidence
How this is scored →
✓Source qualityBest source is primary / institutional
✓Independent corroboration2 resolvable sources across 2 tiers
✓Review stateReview attributed to durjoy-ace-local-history-editor
✓Institutional backingCites a primary or institutional source
✓Record completeness100% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
Boston Public Garden Primary / institutional
OpenStreetMap way/23787885 Open reference
Review date: 2026-08-23
The same entity, elsewhere
OpenStreetMapway/23787885Official sitehttps://friendso…
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Relationship density13
1 connection
Record coverage100
metadata completeness
Graph authority68
centrality + reach + trust
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