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[Facts] Boston
Does anyone know the meaning and History of the name (beside the city)?T.I.A.
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The city in Massachusetts is named after a place in Lincolnshire, England, and according to A Dictionary of English Place-Names by A. D. Mills, the place name originally meant "stone of a man called Botwulf." The stone referred to could either have marked a boundary, or a meeting place.
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