Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States



 


Notes:
Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood within the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.[1] Originally called Mishawum by the Massachusett tribe, 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, in the reign of Charles I of England. It was originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.



Charlestown became a city in 1848 and was annexed by Boston on January 5, 1874. With that, it also switched from Middlesex County, to which it had belonged since 1643, to Suffolk County.

Latitude: 42.379017, Longitude: -71.063912


Birth

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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID 
1 Hunter, Emma Jane  16 Feb 1884Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States I27590


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