The project also included the construction of the Ted Williams Tunnel ( extending Interstate 90 to Logan International Airport ), the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the space vacated by the previous I-93 elevated roadway.

The construction of the Big Dig's Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge | Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge ( now complete ) over the Charles River.

The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River was named to honor Zakim's civil rights and race relations work in Boston.

Boston's Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge was named in his honor.

The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge was named in his honor.

* The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge web site

* Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge is the world's widest cable-stayed bridge with a 56 m ( 183 ft ) wide bridge deck ; carries 10 lanes of Interstate 93 over the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts.

Haymarket and North Station received major renovations during the Big Dig in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, as the Causeway Street Elevated portion of the Green Line was buried, its physical connection to the Orange Line was improved to make transfers easier, the Canal Street Incline was finally closed, and the Green Line was re-rerouted through a new portal closer to the river, near the Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge.

The elegant cable-stayed Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, which opened fully to traffic in December 2003, replaced the Charlestown High Bridge, which was demolished in 2004.

The Skinny House ( Boston ) | Skinny House, reported by the Boston Globe as having the " uncontested distinction of being the narrowest house in Boston ," stands near the top of Copp's Hill within sight of Old North Church and the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge.

Image: CoppsHillLandmarks. jpg | From left to right can be seen the Skinny House, the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, and the Copp's Hill Burying Ground.

In the opposite direction, the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge and the TD Banknorth Garden are visible not far away.

Image: CoppsHillLandmarks. jpg | From left to right can be seen the Skinny House, the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, and the Copp's Hill Burying Ground.

The Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge is shown illuminated in the background.

* Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge

* Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge

* Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge

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# REDIRECT Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge

It lies underneath the ramps of Interstate 93 only a few blocks north of the highway's connection to the Big Dig via the Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge.

The legislature separated the Turnpike into a western portion, from the New York border to Route 128, and the eastern Metropolitan Highway System, which includes a stretch of the Turnpike from Route 128 to East Boston, the Ted Williams, Sumner and Callahan tunnels under Boston Harbor, and I-93 from Southampton Street through the Thomas P. " Tip " O ' Neill tunnel and the Leonard P. Zakim Bridge to the foot of the Tobin Bridge.

A spur just north of the new Zakim Bridge on I-93 North was intended to connect to the Inner Belt.

Leonard Paul " Lenny " Zakim ( November 17, 1953-December 2, 1999 ) was a Jewish-American religious and civil rights leader in Boston.

Zakim died in 1999 after a 5-year battle with bone-marrow cancer.

Zakim was born in Clifton, NJ and became interested in civil rights and activism after he encountered anti-semitism as a boy.

" The campaign was the beginning of an association with Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, that would bring Mr. Zakim to the policy-making level of the national Democratic Party, a standing he retained after Dukakis's political career faded ," the Boston Globe wrote in its obituary on Zakim.

In addition to his work with the ADL Zakim was co-founder of A World of Difference Institute, an anti-bias educational project formed in Boston in 1986.

Lenny Zakim and the Rev.

During the last years of his life, as he struggled with myeloma, he founded The Lenny Zakim Fund to fight poverty and racism in Boston.

Zakim published several articles about the Middle East, Black-Jewish and Catholic-Jewish relations, anti-Semitism, violence and hate crimes.

Zakim served as a member of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee.

Zakim also received the Urban League's Community Service Award and the Catholic Charities Medal.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.

* Bunker Hill Day ( Suffolk County, Massachusetts )

Williams completed pre-flight training in Athens, Georgia, his primary training at NAS Bunker Hill, Indiana, and his advanced flight training at NAS Pensacola.

On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suffering severe casualties and after Colonial forces run out of ammunition, Fort Ticonderoga is taken by American forces in New York Colony's northern frontier, and American forces unsuccessfully invade Canada, with an attack on Montreal defeated by British forces on November 13 and an attack on Quebec repulsed December 31.

After 3 charges, the British take the hill in the misnamed Battle of Bunker Hill.

* Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Peru, Indiana, was renamed on May 12, 1968, to Grissom Air Force Base.

On June 17 the Battle of Bunker Hill energized the Patriots ; Congress established the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief in June 1775.

The railway brought granite stones from a rock quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, so that the Bunker Hill Monument could be erected in Boston.

As a radioman-gunner, he served aboard the USS Bunker Hill during the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945.

They are named after General Joseph Warren, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War:

Israel Putnam ( January 7, 1718 – May 29, 1790 ) was an American army general and Freemason who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill ( 1775 ) during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ).

He was one of the primary figures at the Battle of Bunker Hill, both in its planning and on the battlefield.

After Bunker Hill, Putnam progressed to temporary command of the American forces in New York, while waiting for the arrival on April 13, 1776 of the commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General George Washington.

The Battle of Bunker Hill must count as the greatest achievement in Putnam's life ; afterward, his fortunes took a downturn at the Battle of Long Island in August 1776, where he was forced to effect a hasty retreat.

Seth Reed, a Colonel in the Battle of Bunker Hill moved here with his family as a Pioneer between 1787 and 1795. see also Geneva ( town ), New York

The light infantry and grenadier companies of the Fusiliers saw bloody action at the Battle of Bunker Hill and all companies, except the grenadiers who were garrisoning New York City, at the Battle of Guilford Court House in the American War of Independence.

* Edgewood ( Bunker Hill, West Virginia ), listed on the NRHP in West Virginia

He fought in the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill.

In August 1775, the Six Nations staged a big council fire near Albany, after news of Bunker Hill had made war seem imminent.