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Boston Information
Boston has many nicknames. The City on a Hill came from original
Massachusetts Bay Colony's governor John Winthrop's goal to create the biblical
"City on a Hill." It also refers to the original three hills of Boston. Beantown
refers to early Bostonian merchants' habit for making baked beans with imported
molasses. The Hub is a shortened form of writer Oliver Wendell Holmes' phrase
The Hub of the Solar System, now more commonly The Hub of the Universe. William
Tudor, co-founder of the North American Review, christened the city The Athens
of America for its great cultural and intellectual influence. Boston is
sometimes called the Puritan City because its founders were Puritans, and also
called The Cradle of Liberty for its role in instigating the American
Revolution. Citizens of Boston and the surrounding area are called Bostonians.
The city lies at the center of the Boston CMSA (Consolidated Metropolitan
Statistical Area), the seventh largest in the United States. The area
encompasses parts of the states of New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, and
Connecticut. The city also lies at the center of Greater Boston, which also
includes the cities of Cambridge, Brookline, Quincy, Newton, and many suburban
communities farther from Boston.