Editing Boston, Indiana (section)

==History==
Boston was named after [[Boston]], Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5198 | title=Profile for Boston, IN | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=July 7, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703110206/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5198 | archive-date=July 3, 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

Boston was originally called New Boston, and under the latter name was laid out and [[plat]]ted in 1832.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historywaynecou00youngoog | title=History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time | publisher=R. Clarke & Company | author=Young, Andrew White | year=1872 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historywaynecou00youngoog/page/n177 157]}}</ref> The first post office in Boston was established in 1837.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8oUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA275 | title=History of Wayne County, Indiana: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Volume 2 | publisher=Inter-State Publishing Company | year=1884 | pages=275}}</ref>

On June 26, 1849, a cholera outbreak began, with the first death occurring the following day. Of the 120 residents at the time, 53 residents died over the following 5 weeks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pal-item.com/story/news/local/2015/06/28/half-boston-residents-die-cholera/29431483/|title=About half of Boston residents die from cholera in 1849}}</ref>

The Boston Township Council is composed of five members with a council president.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}