New Boston, IL

New Boston is a city in Mercer County, Illinois, United States on the Mississippi River. The 2020 census counted 613 residents. New Boston was settled in the 1830s by "Yankee" migrants from Massachusetts. After New Boston, Illinois was settled, very prominent businessmen and their families made New Boston their homes, and many of those homes are still around today, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A newcomer can read New Boston through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, New Boston comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. New Boston is located on the western edge of Mercer County and the state of Illinois. New Boston sits on the east bank of the Mississippi River, at the mouth of Boston Bay and its inflow, Eliza Creek.