Claim · the gray record
Boston is nicknamed the Hub
Boston is nicknamed the Hub
This is an attestation. The archive records who asserts it, since when, and on what evidence. It does not rule on whether it is true.
- Subject
- Boston
- Predicate
nickname- Attested by
- Samuel Adams Drake, Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston
- Attestor kind
- scholar
- Attested since, as stated
- 1873
- Attestation strength
- attested — a count of independent attestations, never a truth value
- Variant note
- From Holmes's "hub of the solar system", applied to the city.
Evidence
Samuel Adams Drake, Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston (1873)
" This expression thus applied only to the State House, but since modified into the " Hub of the Universe," is now gener- ally used in connection Avith Boston itseK, until the Bostonian abroad has become famihar and even content with hearing his native or adopted city styled the " Hub " from Maine to CaHfornia.
Other attestations of the same assertion
These are variants, not corrections. They are listed unranked and unresolved; the archive does not choose between them.
Attested by Frances Prince, Fictional Rambles in and about Boston (scholar) since 1902 · attested
Questions this record answers
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Who attests that Boston is nicknamed the Hub?
Samuel Adams Drake, Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston attests it, as scholar, since 1873. The archive records the attestation strength as attested — a count of independent attestations, never a truth value.
Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.
What evidence does the archive hold for this claim?
1 evidence row supports the claim. The passage carrying the attestation reads: “" This expression thus applied only to the State House, but since modified into the " Hub of the Universe," is now gener- ally used in connection Avith Boston itseK, until the Bostonian abroad has become famihar and even content with hearing his native or adopted city styled the " Hub " from Maine to CaHfornia.” A claim with no evidence row is served with that fact stated rather than served bare.
Attested by: Samuel Adams Drake, Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston (1873)
Does the archive say this claim is true?
No. This archive does not adjudicate. It records who attests an assertion, since when, and on what evidence, and it assigns no truth value and no rating. Sibling attestations of this same assertion share the group boston-nickname and are served beside it. Variants of one assertion are served together, unranked and unresolved.
Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.
What does the archive hold for Boston is nicknamed the Hub, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Boston is nicknamed the Hub from Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929 (public domain). 3 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to Samuel Adams Drake.
Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.
Related records
- about — Boston
- derived from — Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:boston-nickname-the-hub-old-landmarks-and-historic-p
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/boston-nickname-the-hub-old-landmarks-and-historic-p
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/boston-nickname-the-hub-old-landmarks-and-historic-p.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 5 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- Internet Archive — Boston texts — source of record
- License
- Public domain — published before 1929 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 5 September 2026
- Source identifier
- old-landmarks-and-historic-personages-of-boston#the-hub
- Attribution
- Samuel Adams Drake
- Rights as stated
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT (Internet Archive item rights review), corroborated by the item's own publication date of 1873 — before 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | searched a text the archive itself holds, not a source it merely knows of | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | test | required ONE sentence to carry the name at a word boundary, a naming verb, and the subject — all three, or nothing | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | quote | took that sentence unaltered as the evidence for this claim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |