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Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. [1] Also called Mishawum by the Massachusett, it is located on a peninsula north of the Charles River, across from downtown Boston, and also adjoins the Mystic River and Boston Harbor waterways.
The Town Hill District is a historic district bounded roughly by Rutherford Avenue and Main and Warren Streets in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Town Hill was laid out by Charlestown engineer Thomas Graves in 1629 and was the site of Boston's first settlement. The unique elliptical street plan forms a tightly delineated ...
Route 99 is a 6.67-mile-long (10.73 km) north–south state highway in metropolitan Boston, leading from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown through the northern suburbs of Everett, Malden, and Melrose, and terminating in Saugus at U.S. Route 1 (US 1).
Sullivan Square Station. 1900. Sullivan Square is a traffic circle located at the north end of the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.It is named after James Sullivan, an early 19th-century Governor of Massachusetts.
[citation needed] Brighton (including Allston), Charlestown, Dorchester (including South Boston, Mid Dorchester, Mattapan and Hyde Park), Roxbury (including West Roxbury, Roslindale and Jamaica Plain), have all at some point been municipalities independent from downtown Boston, providing a source of well-defined boundaries for the largest areas.
The Monument Square Historic District encompasses a city park and its surrounding buildings at the top of Breed's Hill in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The location is notable as the site of the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill , early in the American Revolutionary War .
Charlestown Bridge (officially: William Felton "Bill" Russell Bridge) Route 99 (N. Washington St) Boston to Charlestown: 1900 331.9 meters (1,089 ft) [1] The MBTA Orange Line used this bridge, before the upstream tunnel was completed in 1975. Site of a ferry established in 1630; [2] obsoleted by the Charles River Bridge, built 1786
Statewide map Boston highlight 1973–1982 1983–1992 1993–2002 2003–2013 2013-2023 Since 2023 The Commonwealth's districts, as of 1796.