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The Tweeter Center
Southeast Massachusetts MA
~7.44 miles from Easton city center
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TPC Boston
205 Arnold Palmer Blvd Norton MA
~8.07 miles from Easton city center
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TPC Boston is a private golf club located in Norton, Massachusetts, approximately 25 miles south of Boston.The Gil Hanse designed championship golf course is a member of the Tournament Players Club network operated by the PGA Tour. It is the venue for the tour's annual Deutsche Bank Championship, a tournament that is part of the end of season FedEx Cup playoffs.TPC Boston is a private golf club located in Norton, Massachusetts and is part of the 21 Club, TPC Network owned and operated by the PGA TOUR. The Club opened on June 28, 2002 and was designed by Arnold Palmer. The Club has quickly risen in stature in part due to hosting the Deutsche Bank Championship over Labor Day weekend since 2003.
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Gillette Stadium - New England Patriots
Foxboro MA
~9.03 miles from Easton city center
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Gillette Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Foxborough, Massachusetts, residing 21 miles (34 kilometers) southwest of downtown Boston that serves as the home stadium and administrative offices for the New England Patriots football team and the New England Revolution soccer team. The facility opened in 2002, replacing Foxboro Stadium. The seating capacity is 68,756, including 6,000 club seats and 87 luxury suites. The stadium is owned and operated by Kraft Sports Group, a subsidiary of The Kraft Group, the company through which businessman Robert Kraft owns the Patriots and Revolution. The stadium was originally known as CMGI Field before the naming rights were bought by Gillette after the "dot-com" bust. Although Gillette has since been acquired by Procter & Gamble, the stadium ...
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Boston's Children's Museum
Easton MA
~11.54 miles from Easton city center
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Boston Children's Museum is a children's museum in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the education of children. Located on Children's Wharf along the Fort Point Channel, Boston Children's Museum is the second oldest children's museum in the United States. It contains many activities meant to both amuse and educate young children.
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Hyde Park (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~14.06 miles from Easton city center
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Hyde Park is the southernmost neighborhood of the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Hyde Park is home to a diverse range of people, housing types and social groups. It is an urban location with suburban characteristics.The George Wright Golf Course, named for baseball Hall of Famer and Cincinnati Reds shortstop George Wright, is in Hyde Park. The golf course is a Donald Ross-designed course and is considered one of his finest designs.
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Mattapan Square (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~15.07 miles from Easton city center
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A gunfight in Mattapan Square between feuding gangs resulted in the wounding of four men. A potential victim is Simco's on the Bridge, a takeout restaurant that is home of the foot-long hot dog and a decades-old symbol of commercial stability in a neighborhood hungry for both.Police officials have asked the city's Licensing Board to scale back Simco's closing time from 3 a.m. to 1 a.m. Police logs indicate frequent calls to the site, which they attribute to the hectic convergence of customers following last call at area bars and nightclubs.
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Roslindale (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~16.09 miles from Easton city center
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Roslindale is a primarily residential neighborhood of Boston bordered by Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, West Roxbury and Mattapan. It is served by an MBTA Commuter Rail line, several MBTA bus lines and the MBTA Orange Line in nearby Jamaica Plain. Roslindale has its own branch of the Boston Public Library, the neighborhood is covered by Boston Police District E-5 in West Roxbury, and the Boston Fire Department has a station on Canterbury Street which houses Ladder 16, Engine 53 & District Chief 12. A portion of the Arnold Arboretum is located in Roslindale.Six miles south-southwest of downtown Boston, Roslindale was originally part of the town of Roxbury. In 1851, current day Jamaica Plain, Roslindale and West Roxbury seceded from Roxbury to become the Town of West Roxbury. The area voted in ...
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West Roxbury (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~16.13 miles from Easton city center
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West Roxbury is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, bordered by Roslindale to the north, the Town of Dedham to the east and south, the Town of Brookline and the City of Newton to the west. Founded in 1630 (contemporaneously with Boston), West Roxbury, Massachusetts was originally part of the town of Roxbury and was mainly used as farmland. West Roxbury seceded from Roxbury in 1851, and was annexed by Boston in 1874. At the time, the town included the neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and Roslindale.West Roxbury's main thoroughfare is Centre Street, lined with local restaurants and commercial establishments. Today, the neighborhood's tree-lined streets and mostly single family homes give it a suburban feel in an urban setting. Life in the neighborhood centers on political and civic acti...
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Mattapan (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~16.38 miles from Easton city center
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Mattapan is a neighborhood in Boston. Historically a section of neighboring Dorchester, Mattapan became a part of Boston when Dorchester was annexed in 1870. As of the 2000 census, it had a population of 28,145. Like other neighborhoods of the late 19th and early 20th century, Mattapan developed, residentially and commercially, as the railroads and streetcars made downtown Boston increasingly accessible. Predominantly residential, Mattapan is a mix of public housing, small apartment buildings, single-family houses, and two and three family houses (known locally as "Three-Deckers"). Blue Hill Avenue and Mattapan Square, where Blue Hill Avenue, River Street, and Cummins Highway meet, are the commercial heart of the neighborhood, home to banks, law offices, restaurants, and retail shops. The ...
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West Roxbury Center (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~16.41 miles from Easton city center
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West Roxbury is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, bordered by Roslindale to the north, the Town of Dedham to the east and south, the Town of Brookline and the City of Newton to the west. Founded in 1630 (contemporaneously with Boston), West Roxbury, Massachusetts was originally part of the town of Roxbury and was mainly used as farmland. West Roxbury seceded from Roxbury in 1851, and was annexed by Boston in 1874. At the time, the town included the neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and Roslindale.West Roxbury's main thoroughfare is Centre Street, lined with local restaurants and commercial establishments. Today, the neighborhood's tree-lined streets and mostly single family homes give it a suburban feel in an urban setting. Life in the neighborhood centers on political and civic acti...
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Roslindale Village (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~16.43 miles from Easton city center
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Roslindale is a primarily residential neighborhood of Boston bordered by Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, West Roxbury and Mattapan. It is served by an MBTA Commuter Rail line, several MBTA bus lines and the MBTA Orange Line in nearby Jamaica Plain. Roslindale has its own branch of the Boston Public Library, the neighborhood is covered by Boston Police District E-5 in West Roxbury, and the Boston Fire Department has a station on Canterbury Street which houses Ladder 16, Engine 53 & District Chief 12. A portion of the Arnold Arboretum is located in Roslindale.
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Arnold Arboretum
Boston MA
~17.05 miles from Easton city center
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Fields Corner (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~17.11 miles from Easton city center
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Fields Corner is a station on the rapid transit Red Line at Fields Corner in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It opened on November 5, 1927, serving as the south end of the line for about a year. In addition to the two rapid transit platforms, one on each side of the line, there were streetcar tracks on each side, with the departing tracks at the north (railroad west) side split into two, and a bus loop under the south (east) track. Free transfers were available between all modes. With buses a paper transfer was required.The lower level busway was later closed, and all buses (and trackless trolleys) were routed to the upper level. The upper level busways were closed in the 2000s for reconstruction.A new Fields Corner station entrance lobby opened on Friday, December 22, 2006. After a ribbon-...
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Dorchester (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~17.27 miles from Easton city center
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Dorchester is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is named after the town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated. Dorchester, including a large portion of today's Boston, was separately incorporated in 1630. It was still a primarily rural town and had a population of 12,000 when annexed to Boston in 1870. Railroad and streetcar lines brought rapid growth, increasing the population to 150,000 by 1920. It is now a large working class community with many European Americans (and is still a center of Irish American immigration), African Americans, Caribbean Americans, Latinos, and East and Southeast Asian Americans. Recently, there has been an influx of young working professionals, gay men, and working artists to the neighborhood, add...
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Franklin Park Zoo
Boston MA
~17.34 miles from Easton city center
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The Franklin Park Zoo, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the oldest zoos in the United States. It is operated by Zoo New England, which also operates the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts.The 72-acre (290,000 m²) zoo is located in the northeast portion of Franklin Park, Boston's largest park and the last component of the city's Emerald Necklace.On August 4, 2009, a report from the Taunton Daily Gazette stated that the funding for Franklin Park Zoo had been restored to $5M.On August 7, 2009 Governor Deval Patrick, using a line-item veto, reduced the budget back to $3.5M
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Jamaica Plain (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~18.23 miles from Easton city center
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Jamaica Plain is a historic neighborhood of 4.4 square miles (11 km2) in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded by Boston Puritans seeking farm land to the south, it was originally part of the city of Roxbury. The community seceded from Roxbury as a part of the new town of West Roxbury in 1851, and became part of Boston when West Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1874. In the 19th century, Jamaica Plain became one of the first streetcar suburbs in America and home to a significant portion of Boston's Emerald Necklace of parks, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. According to an official city estimate, it had a population of 38,196 in October 2003.
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Egleston Square (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~18.25 miles from Easton city center
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Egleston Square is located at the junction of Washington Street and Columbus Avenue. The community, while not an "official" Boston neighborhood, extends west and south into Jamaica Plain, north into Roxbury, and east to Franklin Park and the edges of Dorchester. Many cultures meet in Egleston Square. The annual Hands Around Egleston street fair highlights food from the Caribbean, and Latin America, traditional African American dishes and much more. Near the library you can find many resources and agencies.
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Uphams Corner (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~18.38 miles from Easton city center
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Uphams Corner is a section of Dorchester, the largest neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The intersection of Dudley Street and Columbia Road is the heart of Uphams Corner, and one of Dorchester's main business districts. Currently Uphams Corner is served by several bus lines and the MBTA's Fairmount Communter Rail. Often, Uphams Corner is known as Columbia Square. There is a very large Cape Verdean immigrant community in Uphams Corner, it is the largest concentration of Cape Verdean residents within Boston city limits. The district has several historical sites, including the Strand Theatre, the Columbia Square Barbonic Hall, and Dorchester North Burying Ground, which is the nation’s second oldest cemetery. Jones Hill and Edward Everett Square are often thought of as part of Uphams...
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University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston MA
~18.39 miles from Easton city center
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The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the second largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. The university is located on 177 acres on Columbia Point in the City of Boston, Massachusetts. Students are primarily from Massachusetts but also from other parts of the United States and from foreign countries.UMass Boston is the only public university in the city of Boston.
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John F. Kennedy Library and Museum (JFK)
Boston MA
~18.39 miles from Easton city center
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The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. It is located on Columbia Point in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, next to the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Archives. It was designed by the architect I. M. Pei. The building is the official repository for original papers and correspondence of the Kennedy Administration, as well as special bodies of published and unpublished materials, such as books and papers by and about Ernest Hemingway. The library and museum were dedicated in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and members of the Kennedy family. It can be reached from nearby Interstate 93 or via shuttle bus from the JFK/UM...
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Dudley Square (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~19.24 miles from Easton city center
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Dudley Square (originally Dudley Street or Dudley) is a ground-level bus depot in Dudley Square, Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, served by local buses of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and their Silver Line bus rapid transit service. In addition to the Silver Line it serves the 1, 8, 14, 15, 19, 23, 25, 28, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47, 66, 170, and 171 bus lines.
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Columbus Park
Boston MA
~19.29 miles from Easton city center
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Running the length of Atlantic Avenue between Mercantile Street and Long Wharf, this waterfront park boasts some of the best views of the harbor and is the gateway to the North End . Children can play in the small park area, and benches provide a welcome respite from the hours spent walking and shopping. A popular place for local office workers to have lunch, you will usually find a few food vendors in the area as well. Free jazz and other performances often take place on summer weekend evenings.
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Slater Mill
Pawtucket RI
~19.39 miles from Easton city center
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Blackstone Valley Visitor Center
Pawtucket RI
~19.43 miles from Easton city center
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Mission Hill (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~19.43 miles from Easton city center
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Mission Hill is a 3/4 square mile neighborhood of approximately 18,000 people in Boston, Massachusetts.The neighborhood is roughly bounded by Columbus Avenue and the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury to the east, Longwood Avenue to the northeast and the Olmsted designed Riverway/Jamaicaway and the town of Brookline to the west. It is northernly adjacent to the Boston neighborhood Jamaica Plain. It is served by the MBTA Green Line E Branch and the Orange Line and is within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts. "The Hill" overlaps with about half of the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, home to 21 health care, research, education institutions and are responsible for the largest employment area in the City of Boston outside of downtown. Due to these adjacencies, the neighborhood is of...
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Brookline Village (Neighborhood)
Boston MA
~19.61 miles from Easton city center
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1852 Map of Boston area showing Brookline and its brooks.Once part of Algonquian territory, Brookline was first settled by European colonists in the early 1600s. The area was an outlying part of the colonial settlement of Boston and known as the hamlet of Muddy River. In 1705, it was incorporated as the independent town of Brookline. The northern and southern borders of the town were marked by two small rivers or brooks, hence the name. The northern border with Brighton (which was itself part of Cambridge until 1807) was Smelt Brook. (That name appears on maps starting at least as early as 1852, but sometime between 1888 and 1925 the brook was covered over.[2]) The southern border, with Boston, was the Muddy River.The city of Brighton was merged with Boston in 1874, and the Boston-Broo...
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Harvard School of Public Health
Boston MA - (617) 495-1000
~19.65 miles from Easton city center
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Harvard Medical School
Boston MA - (617) 432-1000
~19.67 miles from Easton city center
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Warren Anatomical Museum
Boston MA
~19.67 miles from Easton city center
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The Warren Anatomical Museum, housed within Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor Dr. John Collins Warren, whose personal "cabinet" of unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological specimens are the nucleus of its 15,000-piece collection. The Warren also has objects significant to medical history, such as the inhaler used during the first public demonstration of ether-assisted surgery in 1846.A rotating subset of the collection is open to the public. Among the Warren's most treasured items, and certainly its most famous, are the skull and tamping iron of Phineas Gage.
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Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Boston MA - (617) 495-1000
~19.72 miles from Easton city center
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