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.

Charlestown is the oldest Town in Cecil County and the third oldest town in the State of Maryland.

Many distinguished Charlestown residents tore down their houses and moved to Baltimore in disgust when the Town ’ s status as county seat was stripped away in favor of a town at the head of the Elk River-Elkton.

As a port and mercantile Town, Charlestown did not have great and grandiose mansions but rather smaller working buildings.

The property is owned by the Town of Charlestown, Maryland.

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

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.

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.

* Town of Charlestown official website

In 1799 the locals asked his permission to rename the place Charles's Town which in turn became Charlestown.

* HMS Charlestown, a Town class destroyer received from the US Navy in 1940 and decommissioned in 1945.

It serves as a beach bypass, granting access to the roads to Charlestown Breachway State Beach, Charlestown Town Beach and Green Hill Beach.

Today " South County " comprises the present-day townships of Washington County Rhode Island, i. e., North Kingstown, South Kingstown, Narragansett, Charlestown, Richmond, Hopkinton & Westerly, and since 1959, the Town of New Shoreham, " Otherwise Block Island ", but for some it can also include such Kent County Rhode Island towns which were also former lands of the Narragansett / Niantic Native Peoples.

He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, to Thomas Ball, a hosue and sign painter and Elizabeth Wyer Hall.

The library moved to a larger space in the new Charlestown City Hall in 1869.

At 11: 00 the following morning, Theodore Lyman, the mayor of Boston, invited the public to a meeting at Faneuil Hall to discuss " measures relative to the riot at Charlestown ".

In keeping with the resolutions, Mayor Lyman ordered troops and police to be stationed not only around Faneuil Hall, but at the city arsenal, the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the Catholic church in Charlestown, and the house of Edward Cutter.

The Booth Hall Children's Hospital, based on Charlestown Road, Blackley in North Manchester, was opened in 1908, by Humphrey Booth, who had bought the land and commissioned its building.

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.

The structure is listed as one of the old inns of Charlestown along the Old Post Road, now MD Route 267.

Charlestown today is a small, water-oriented municipality with a population of about 1, 500 people, four marinas, a general store, two restaurants, an elementary school and a Post Office.

The United States Postal Service operates the Charlestown Post Office.

The roadway then turns to the southeast along Shore Road, which runs parallel to Misquamicut Beach, Atlantic Beach and Winnapaug Pond, until Shore Road meets Post Road not far from the Charlestown town line.

After Shore Road merges with Post Road, Route 1A has an unsigned concurrency with US 1 in Westerly and Charlestown.

Just after Post Road, carrying both US 1 and unsigned Route 1A, passes into Charlestown, the road intersects with Route 216 ( Ross Hill Road ).

The roadway follows Old Post Road in Charlestown past Ninigret State Park before briefly merging back with US 1 ( Post Road ).

The third signed section of Route 1A, which is in length, again follows Old Post Road through Charlestown and into South Kingstown before re-merging with US 1.

* Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Charlestown

According to Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation data, the Fitzgerald Expressway runs from the Massachusetts Avenue Connector just beyond Andrew Square in South Boston north to the split with U. S. Route 1 in Charlestown.

Hamilton House ( CE-107 ; circa 1755 ): The house was one of the oldest in Charlestown and was constructed by John Kankey.

Klondike / McKeown House ( CE-109 ; circa 1900 ): This house is one of the few ornate Victorian structures located in Charlestown.

Linton House ( CE-110 ; circa 1787 ): Located at 316 Market Street, the “ Linton House ” was constructed by Charlestown Commissioner William Linton in 1787.

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.

107 House ( CE-386 ; circa 1750 ): This structure, now the Charlestown Museum, is located at 343 Market Street.

Paca House ( CE-111 ; circa 1750 ): John Paca, the brother of Governor William Paca a signer of the Declaration of Independence, lived in Charlestown during the mid-1700s.

Red Lyon Tavern ( CE-128 ; circa 1750 ): The tavern is one of Charlestown ’ s most important historic sites and structures.

The Indian Queen Tavern ( CE-127 ; circa 1740 ): One of the founders of Charlestown, Zebulon Hollingsworth, was an inn-keeper who constructed the “ Indian Queen ,” the most significant historic resource in Charlestown.

Water Tower ( CE-1306 ): The historic “ Charlestown Water Tower ” is located behind the 107 House, the Charlestown Museum, located on Market Street.

In 1827 he accepted an appointment from the United States government which led to the two great works of his life ( 1827-1834 ): the naval dry docks at the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown and at Norfolk.

Located in the North of the city, it included the overspill area of Blackley, the deprived inner-city area of Harpurhey, and the districts of Moston, Crumpsall and Charlestown.

Located on the intersection of two National Primary routes, the N17 and the N5, Charlestown is an ideal stopover or centre to stay and visit other locations.