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New Balance Laces Up in Boston

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New Balance Laces Up in Boston

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Founded in Boston in 1906 as an arch-support company, New Balance grew into a global athletic footwear brand that still manufactures shoes in Massachusetts factories today..


Founded in Boston in 1906 as an arch-support company, New Balance grew into a global athletic footwear brand that still manufactures shoes in Massachusetts factories today.

It’s one more thread in the 400-year story of a city that keeps reinventing itself — the same story Boston Made was named to carry forward.

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Boston’s Streetcar Suburbs

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Boston's Streetcar Suburbs

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As electric streetcars spread in the late 1800s, neighborhoods like Dorchester and Jamaica Plain grew rapidly into Boston’s first streetcar suburbs, shaping the city’s residential landscape..

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As electric streetcars spread in the late 1800s, neighborhoods like Dorchester and Jamaica Plain grew rapidly into Boston’s first streetcar suburbs, shaping the city’s residential landscape.

It’s one more thread in the 400-year story of a city that keeps reinventing itself — the same story Boston Made was named to carry forward.

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The South End’s Victorian Rowhouses

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The South End's Victorian Rowhouses

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Built in the mid-1800s on newly filled land, Boston’s South End became one of the largest intact Victorian rowhouse districts in the country, later a haven for artists and a diverse LGBTQ community..

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Built in the mid-1800s on newly filled land, Boston’s South End became one of the largest intact Victorian rowhouse districts in the country, later a haven for artists and a diverse LGBTQ community.

It’s one more thread in the 400-year story of a city that keeps reinventing itself — the same story Boston Made was named to carry forward.

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The Hatch Shell and the Boston Pops’ Fourth of July

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The Hatch Shell and the Boston Pops' Fourth of July

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Since the mid-20th century, the Boston Pops’ Fourth of July concert at the Hatch Shell has drawn hundreds of thousands to the Esplanade for fireworks over the Charles River..

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Since the mid-20th century, the Boston Pops’ Fourth of July concert at the Hatch Shell has drawn hundreds of thousands to the Esplanade for fireworks over the Charles River.

It’s one more thread in the 400-year story of a city that keeps reinventing itself — the same story Boston Made was named to carry forward.

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