Canton, Massachusetts

Canton, United States

Canton, Massachusetts shares 42 Bunkabop connections with 2116 other places across 12 topics, shaped by transportation corridors, early colonial history, and Indigenous settlement. Before Puritan colonization in the early 1600s, the area was seasonally inhabited by the Neponset band of Massachusett under sachem Chickatawbut. The Praying Indian community at Ponkapoag was forcibly removed to Deer Island during King Philip's War in 1675. Amtrak's Acela trains pass through Canton without stopping, and MBTA's Providence/Stoughton Line runs through the town. Boston, Massachusetts and New England share many connections with Canton.