Boston

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1. Story
2. The capital of Massachusetts and the oldest major city in the north-eastern United States, founded in 1630 on a narrow peninsula in Massachusetts Bay and expanded repeatedly by filling tidal flats — the Back Bay district through which the marathon finishes is nineteenth-century made ground. In this Journey Boston appears as the city whose athletic club invented the annual civic marathon in 1897 and whose western commuter towns supply the course: the race is run inbound along a corridor through Hopkinton, Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley and Newton before entering the city itself. It is a canonical city object and is not defined by the marathon.
3. Knowledge
4. Boston
5. Connections
6. Boston Marathon
7. Boston Athletic Association
8. The first Boston Marathon
9. Bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line
10. Evidence
11. The Boston Marathon was first run on 19 April 1897 from Ashland over about 24.5 miles, won by John J. McDermott in 2:55:10; the course was lengthened and the start moved to Hopkinton in 1924; Bobbi Gibb ran unofficially in 1966, Kathrine Switzer with a bib in 1967, and women were admitted officially in 1972. V55 verification basis: baa.org was refused by this session's egress proxy; the page was read only through attributed search summaries and contemporary Boston Globe reporting cited within them.