DID
YOU KNOW THAT . . .
The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston is the only
place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car
driving under an airplane.
The African Meeting House opened in Boston in 1806.
It is the first church in America to be built by free Africans.
Basketball
was invented in 1891 by James Naismith in Springfield & volleyball in 1895
by William Morgan in Holyoke.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) invented the first computer in Cambridge in 1928.
The Boston Common is the nation's first public park, established
in 1634.
The USS Constitution, or "Old Ironsides", is the US Navy's
oldest commissioned warship and it is berthed in the Charlestown Navy Yard.
Take a shuttle tour and see Massachusetts as you
have never seen it before. |