The Boston Companion

A red-brick trail tracing the American Revolution, a harbor with genuine 18th-century tea still in its history, and neighborhoods small enough to walk in a day --- New England's original city, with room to make it yours. The Boston Companion's signature chapter takes on a question most visitors never think to ask: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919. On a January afternoon in the North End, a burst storage tank sent a 25-foot wave of molasses through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour.