Boston's primary airport is officially named General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport. It was renamed in 1943 to honor Edward Lawrence Logan, a local war hero and prominent figure in the Massachusetts National Guard. Logan served with distinction in the Spanish-American War and World War I, and he was a key advocate for the development of the Massachusetts military aviation program. Before being named after Logan, the site was known simply as the "Boston Airport" or "Jeffries Point." Interestingly, Logan himself was a vocal critic of the airport's expansion during its early years, making the naming somewhat ironic in hindsight. The airport was originally built on reclaimed land in East Boston and has grown to become one of the busiest and most significant transit hubs on the US East Coast. Today, while most travelers simply call it "Logan," the name stands as a tribute to a man who embodied the civic and military spirit of Boston in the early 20th century, even as the facility has expanded far beyond anything he could have imagined during his lifetime.