** Naval Auxiliary Air Station Charlestown

It proceeded from Everett along the Charlestown Elevated to the Canal Street Incline near North Station.

This new branch eliminated the Charlestown Elevated Everett Station that same year.

Community College Station is an MBTA station on the Orange Line, located in Charlestown, Massachusetts ( a neighborhood of Boston ) near the intersection of Rutherford Avenue and Austin Street.

Charlestown is the harbor for the government ferries which run between Charlestown and Basseterre on St. Kitts.

* Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, a formerly independent city which is now part of Boston

A cairn — a mound of rough stones – crowns the nearby Penn Hill from which she and her son, John Quincy, watched the Battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown.

Charlestown was established in 1808, named after one of its surveyors, Charles Beggs, upon, of which was designated for a town square.

Washington recorded at least two occasions in which he dined and stayed in Charlestown.

During the War of 1812, the British sailed into the Charlestown harbor, which contained a small, deteriorated fort.

Charlestown experienced a gradual decline from 1780 through 1820, which was caused by decreased trade and shipping with the British Empire.

Over the course of time, harmed by the long-term effects of the Revolutionary War, by the realignment of the Old Post Road and better roads which lessened traders ’ dependence on water transportation along with the establishment of Elkton as the new Cecil County Seat in the 1780s, Charlestown slipped into gentle obscurity.

Thus did Charlestown escape the more devastating aspects of “ progress .” Its heritage is preserved in the Historic District, which includes approximately 150 buildings.

A larger area, including land that was later to become the town of Belmont, and outwards to the shore of the Mystic River, which had previously been part of Charlestown, was incorporated on February 27, 1807 as West Cambridge.

The red segment on the island of Nevis shows the parish in which Charlestown is situated

When the British left Concord following their search ( which was largely unsuccessful, as the colonists, with advance warning of the action, had removed most of the supplies ), arriving colonial militia engaged the British column in a running battle all the way back to Charlestown.

They particularly blocked the Charlestown Neck ( the only land access to Charlestown ), and the Boston Neck ( the only land access to Boston, which was then a peninsula ), leaving only the harbor and sea access under British control.

The town of Charlestown itself was entirely vacant, and the high lands of Charlestown ( Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill ) were left undefended, as were the heights of Dorchester, which had a commanding view of the harbor and the city.

The largest commercial centre in the region is Charlestown which has a turnover greater than that of Newcastle's central business district.

Originally a Puritan English city during the Colonial era ( a time to which many of the neighborhood's structures date ), Charlestown was founded in 1628, and settled July 4, 1629, by Thomas Graves, Increase Nowell, Simon Hoyt, Rev.

Much of the battle took place on Breed's Hill, which overlooked the harbor and the town and was only about 400 yards from the southern end of the peninsula ; Bunker Hill is near the northwest end of the peninsula, close to Charlestown Neck and about a mile from the Charles River.

Charlestown was the setting for the 2010 action thriller The Town, directed by and starring Ben Affleck, which follows the lives of a group of Boston bank robbers and the law enforcement personnel attempting to stop them.

Charlestown contains several places of historical interest, many of which are marked by the northern end of Boston's Freedom Trail.

Charlestown was also the location from which Paul Revere began his famous " midnight ride " before the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

The land on which Winchester now sits was purchased from Native Americans by representatives of the settlement of Charlestown in 1639, and the area was first settled in 1640.

Charlestown Town Hall and Post Office ( CE-388 ): Located on Market Street and constructed in 1878, the building served as an elementary school site until June 14, 1961.

Charlestown is served by state routes 11, 12 and 12A.

As a result of this review, the Charlestown Elevated-which served the Charlestown neighborhood north of downtown Boston and the inner suburb Everett-was demolished in 1975.

After a period as lighthouse inspector and at Charlestown Navy Yard, he served on the, 1859 – 1861, then took command of the steam-gunboat, serving with David Farragut on the Mississippi River, was promoted to commander on 16 July 1862, and given command of the steam-sloop blockading Mobile Bay.

He was a Cambridge selectman and served on a commission that decided the boundary between Boston and Charlestown.

He became a pastor in Charlestown, Massachusetts ( across Boston harbor ) on 30 April 1789, where he served until 1820.

The Mystic River Branch served the Mystic River waterfront on the north side of Charlestown.

* Jack Kelly-formerly served as the Charlestown Liaison for Boston Mayor Tom Menino and was elected as a delegate for President Obama at the democratic Convention in Denver.

SCA National Headquarters is located in Charlestown, New Hampshire with regional offices across the country.

Charlestown is the equivalent hub for Nevis.

By December 14, 1810 the county seat changed for the third time to Charlestown and it would remain there until 1873.

Charlestown evolved as a major port and taxation center for the British colony as well as a point along the “ Old Post Road ” that connected the Town with larger urban areas such as Baltimore and Philadelphia.

During this time ( 1782-1787 ) Charlestown was also the county seat for Cecil County.

Nathaniel Ramsay / Key-Ramsey House Site ( CE-1300 ): Originally, the home of Francis Key, birthplace of John Ross Key and Father of Francis Scott Key composer of the “ Star Spangled Banner .” This structure was indicated in Benjamin Latrobe ’ s 1813 sketch of Charlestown, located where the Charlestown Parsonage for St. John ’ s Methodist Church stands today.

The house is shown in the 1877 Cecil County atlas inset for the Town of Charlestown.

Ships carrying grain and seafood would leave Charlestown for the West Indies and return with raw sugar for rum.

Charlestown ’ s inns and taverns became known for their variety of cherry rum and brandy drinks.

Warehouse Site ( CE-390 ); Customs House Site ( CE-391 ); Charlestown Wharf Site ( CE-392 ); and Charlestown Wharf ( CE-1297 ): In 1742, when the colonial Maryland Assembly enacted a law to build Charles Town at Long Point on the Northeast River, it also enacted a law to build a wharf for shipping and commerce.

Maryland Historical Trust records indicate that the warehouse was used for the storage of goods shipped from the Charlestown Harbor.

It was originally constructed as a water tower for the McKeown House and was later moved to the Charlestown Museum.

The original mid-18th-century wharf is no longer standing at Charlestown, but the town has built a reproduction of the wharf at the end of a stone pier that was laid over the remains of the original cribbing for archeological conservation.

It was named for Colonel John Alford of Charlestown, who was known for his work in preaching Christianity to Native Americans, and for sponsoring a theology professorship at Harvard College's Divinity School.

Nancy Dowd would revive the fake town of " Charlestown " in her screenplay for the 1981 punk rock satire Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, but the film itself was shot in Canada.

Charlestown is the headquarters for the Narragansett Indian Tribe.

Further north east in Charlestown there are plans for a ' Baildon Business Park ' and hotel on a green field site near Buck Lane, at a cost of £ 25m but there is opposition to the move.