Universität de Cambridge près Boston

Title

Universität de Cambridge près Boston

Description

University of Boston

ca. 1845

Artist

Lemaitre (1797-1870)

Augustin François Lemaître was a french copper and steel- printer and an illustrator in Paris.

Historical Description

The first European to settle in the area was the British settler William Blaxton in 1625. The English emigrants grouped themselves in a settlement on a peninsula called Shawmut by the Native Americans and Trimountaine (actually "three mountains") by the English at first. At that time, the peninsula, surrounded by Massachusetts Bay, was connected to the mainland only by a very narrow land connection. The city became famous for the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, when protests against an increase in the tea tax by the British Parliament triggered the War of Independence. After the American Revolution, Boston became one of the richest trading ports in the world. Among the most important trade goods were fish, rum, salt and tobacco. Since the 1820s, due to increasing immigration, the image of the population also began to change significantly. The city met the enormous demand for land created by the growing population in an unusual way: between 1630 and 1890, the city area tripled not only through incorporations, but also through land reclamations, especially in the shallow waters of the Charles River and Massachusetts Bay. The earth masses required for this purpose were obtained primarily by the gradual erosion of the three hills that were originally located on the peninsula.