Boston annexed five surrounding towns within six years.
Evidence
Between 1867 and 1873, Boston hungrily gobbled up Roxbury, Dorchester, Brighton, Charlestown, and West Roxbury -thereby, like some science fiction monster, growing larger in a very short time and with very little effort (Lane, 1967). — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 325
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- CANDY: Boston annexing five towns in six years ‘like a science fiction monster’ is a vivid, tweetable image of urban sprawl.