M is for Mayflower: A Massachusetts Alphabet

M is for Mayflower: A Massachusetts Alphabet — page 5
Boston the state's capital is a busy seaport and the largest city in New England Boston got its name in 1632 from the English Puritans who founded the city on the peninsula and made it the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony The Puritans called Boston after their hometown in England Because they thought that cooking on Sunday was a sin the Puritans often made baked beans on Saturday to eat as Sunday dinner earning Boston the nick name Beantown Outside Boston is Bunker Hill the site where the first major Revolutionary War battle was fought Springfield is the site of the first game of basketball It was invented by Dr James Naismith a physical education teacher in 1891 using peach baskets for hoops