Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Also called Mishawum by the Massachusett, it is located on a peninsula...
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Bunker Hill Monument (redirect from Charlestown Hill)
221-foot (67 m) granite obelisk was erected between 1825 and 1843 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, with granite from nearby Quincy conveyed to the site via the...
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Charlestown State Prison was a correctional facility in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts operated by the Massachusetts Department of Correction. The...
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Bernie McLaughlin (category People murdered in Massachusetts)
McLaughlin (1921 – October 31, 1961) was an American gangster from Charlestown, Massachusetts, and leader of "The McLaughlin Brothers" gang. Before Bernie formed...
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South Charlestown and Hemlock Center. The area was first granted on December 31, 1735, by colonial governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts as "Plantation...
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area Charlestown, Queensland Charlestown, County Mayo Charlestown Shopping Centre, Dublin Charlestown, KwaZulu-Natal Charlestown, Cornwall Charlestown, Derbyshire...
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Charlestown High School is a public school located at 240 Medford Street in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Charlestown High School...
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became a freeman in 1653 at Newbury, Massachusetts, then from 1654 onwards he resided in Charlestown, Massachusetts. His expeditions took him all over the...
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Boston Navy Yard (redirect from Charlestown Navy Yard)
The Boston Navy Yard, originally called the Charlestown Navy Yard and later Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of the oldest shipbuilding facilities in the...
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Schrafft's (category Charlestown, Boston)
a candy, chocolate and cake company based in Sullivan Square, Charlestown, Massachusetts. In 1861, it introduced jelly beans to the United States and told...
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Battle of Bunker Hill (category Charlestown, Boston)
American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved. It was the original objective...
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Boston Sand & Gravel (category 1914 establishments in Massachusetts)
and subsidiaries around eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire in the United States. The Charlestown, Massachusetts, plant is a highly visible landmark...
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merger that formed American Soda Fountain. Tufts was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on February 11, 1835, to Leonard Tufts and Hepzebah Fosdick Tufts...
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Sidney Edwards Morse (7 February 1794 Charlestown, Massachusetts – 24 December 1871 New York City) was an American inventor, geographer and journalist...
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Warren Tavern (category Charlestown, Boston)
state of Massachusetts and one of the most historic watering holes in America. The Warren Tavern was founded in 1780 in Charlestown, Massachusetts and still...
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William Prescott (category Continental Army officers from Massachusetts)
the Battle of Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts and was dedicated in 1881. The former town of Prescott, Massachusetts, was named in his honor. The...
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Richard Austin (colonist) (category People from colonial Massachusetts)
England, and died in 1645 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Richard (Jr.) was buried in Watertown, Massachusetts. Richard Austin is the immigrant...
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Samuel Whittemore (category People from Charlestown, Boston)
was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1696, the second son by that name of Samuel Whittemore Sr. and Hannah Rix, also of Charlestown. He served as...
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Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, Massachusetts, by Frank Warren Coburn". "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE...
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McLean Hospital (redirect from Charlestown Asylum)
(formerly known as Somerville Asylum and Charlestown Asylum) is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. McLean maintains the world's largest neuroscientific...
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Monument Ave. (film) (category Films set in Massachusetts)
takes place in Charlestown, Massachusetts and centers on small-time criminal Bobby O'Grady (Leary), who becomes conflicted due to Charlestown's code of silence...
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college financially. In 1640, the Massachusetts General Court granted Harvard College the revenue from the Boston-Charlestown ferry to help support the institution...
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Jewish descent. Tucker was raised in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and attended The Park School in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended the Boston Ballet and...
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in 1842, when it was separated from Charlestown. In 2006, the city was named the best-run city in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe. In 1972, 2009, and...
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Ursuline Convent riots (category Charlestown, Boston)
occurred August 11 and 12, 1834, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, near Boston, in what is now Somerville, Massachusetts. During the riot, a convent of Roman...
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Edward McLaughlin (gangster) (category People murdered in Massachusetts)
American boxer and a member of "The McLaughlin Brothers" gang of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Vincent Teresa, former mobster described Edward in his biography...
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The Mayor of Charlestown was the head of the municipal government in Charlestown, Massachusetts. There was no Mayor of Charlestown until 1847 because...
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was launched on 20 November 1861, by the Boston Navy Yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, sponsored by Miss Jane Coffin Colby and Miss Susan Paters Hudson;...
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John Harvard (clergyman) (category English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony)
to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in British America, where he became a teaching elder and assistant preacher of the First Church in Charlestown. Harvard...
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The Charlestown Ropewalk is a former ropewalk facility located in Charlestown, Massachusetts at the former Boston Navy Yard. At over 1,300 feet (400 m)...
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