Charlestown, Boston (usa)

Charlestown, Boston

Charlestown, Boston ranks 6,148th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Feodosia, Aden, and San Lorenzo, Ecuador. Memorable people born in Charlestown, Boston include Samuel Morse, William M. Evarts, and Justin McCarthy. Memorable people who died in Charlestown, Boston include John Harvard. Charlestown, Boston has been the birth place of many inventors, and politicians and the death place of many religious figures. Charlestown, Boston is located in United States.

Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. 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. Charlestown was laid out in 1629 by engineer Thomas Graves, one of its earliest settlers, during the reign of Charles I of England. It was originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Read more on Wikipedia