# Boston 400 (Boston400.com)

> Four centuries of Boston, 1630–2030. A civic anniversary edition connecting the people, places, arguments, and public decisions that continue to shape Boston.

This site is part of The Civic Graph, a History Is For Everyone project
for the Boston/Cambridge region. Every page below is a canonical entity record with
a stable ID, structured facts, source provenance, and Schema.org markup. Public
connections retain their typed predicates when both endpoints clear review.
Summaries are designed to be extractable and citable.

## Cities

- [Boston](https://boston400.com/e/boston): Boston was founded in 1630 and incorporated as a city in 1822. Boston400 follows four centuries of civic change across the city and its neighbors. [API: /api/v1/entity/boston; 6 public relationships]

## Attractions

- [The Freedom Trail](https://boston400.com/e/freedom-trail): A 2.5-mile route marked by brick, paint, and signs, linking 16 colonial, Revolutionary, and federal sites from Boston Common through the North End to Charlestown. [API: /api/v1/entity/freedom-trail; 1 public relationships]

## Parks & public spaces

- [Boston Public Garden](https://boston400.com/e/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. [API: /api/v1/entity/public-garden; 1 public relationships; sameAs: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23787885, https://friendsofthepublicgarden.org/our-parks/the-garden/]

## Historical events

- [Boston Tea Party (1773)](https://boston400.com/e/boston-tea-party-1773): On December 16, 1773, after a mass meeting at Old South Meeting House, about 150 men went to Griffin's Wharf and destroyed 342 chests of imported tea. [API: /api/v1/entity/boston-tea-party-1773; 1 public relationships]
- [Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1775)](https://boston400.com/e/midnight-ride-1775): On April 18-19, 1775, Paul Revere rode from Boston toward Lexington as part of an intelligence and alarm network warning of a British expedition. [API: /api/v1/entity/midnight-ride-1775; 1 public relationships]
- [Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)](https://boston400.com/e/battle-bunker-hill-1775): On June 17, 1775, New England troops met the British army in the Revolution's first major pitched battle; British forces took the field after suffering severe casualties. [API: /api/v1/entity/battle-bunker-hill-1775; 1 public relationships]
- [Boston Massacre (1770)](https://boston400.com/e/boston-massacre-1770): On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of civilians, killing five people, including Crispus Attucks, near the Old State House. [API: /api/v1/entity/boston-massacre-1770; 1 public relationships]

## Landmarks

- [Boston Public Library](https://boston400.com/e/boston-public-library): Established in 1848, Boston Public Library was the first large free municipal library in the United States. Its McKim Building opened in Copley Square in 1895. [API: /api/v1/entity/boston-public-library; 0 public relationships; sameAs: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/63755, https://bpl.org/]

## Canonical API (cite these)

- /api/v1/entity/{id}: the complete canonical record — facts, location, provenance, relationships, sameAs, AI summary
- /api/v1/search?q=QUERY&page=1&limit=20: paginated search across the reviewed public corpus
- /api/graph/related/{id}: graph-ranked related entities
- /api-discovery.json: machine-readable index of every endpoint and dataset

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