George Washington makes his first presidential visit to Boston.

Washington arrives at Boston Neck. Selectmen and the Sheriff of Suffolk County vie for the honor of escorting him into town, with the sheriff prevailing after threatening to “make a hole” in his competitors. The procession makes its way through a Triumphal Arch, designed by Charles Bulfinch, through a crowd of 24,000 people, to the Old State House, where Washington is welcomed by Lt. Gov. Samuel Adams, but not by Gov. John Hancock. During his visit, Washington tours Boston Harbor and Harvard, attends a concert of sacred music at King’s (then Stone) Chapel, is guest at a dinner at Faneuil Hall, and Orange Street is renamed in his honor. Washington leaves Boston for Salem on October 29, 1789. The remainder of street in downtown Boston and the entire road to Roxbury are subsequently named renamed for him as well.