In 1900, a company from the United States of America bought a piece of land known as “the Willows” from a Mr Duminy.

The new owners decided to subdivide the land into stands and which spurred residential development in the area.

Most street names in Boston reflect the suburb's US connections, e.g. Broadway, Washington, Gladstone, Lincoln, Salisbury and Cleveland.

Boston was the location of the infamous “Scissors Murderess”, Marlene Lehnberg and her accomplice Marthinus Charles Choegoe, who murdered Susanna Magdalena van der Linde on 4 November 1974 with a pair of scissors in Gladstone Street, Boston.

[9] Annette Cowley, retired South African Swimmer[10] Rashied Staggie, former leader of the Hard Livings gang.

She was also the first South African actress to walk the red carpet at the 72nd Venice Film Festival in light of her role in The Endless River (2015).