Revere (Massachusetts)

Revere (Massachusetts), city, Suffolk County, eastern Massachusetts, on Massachusetts Bay, a residential suburb of Boston; incorporated as a city 1915. The community was settled in the 1620s as Rumney Marsh and incorporated into Boston in 1634. It was set off from Boston and incorporated as Chelsea in 1739. The first naval engagement of the American Revolution, the Battle of Chelsea Creek, was fought here in May 1775. The community became North Chelsea in 1846 and in 1871 was renamed for the American patriot Paul Revere. Population 42,423 (1980); 42,786 (1990); 47,283 (2000); 45,807 (2005 estimate).