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Charlestown Attractions
Historical Sites

Bunker Hill Burying Ground - Charlestown's second oldest cemetery est. 1810

Bunker Hill Monument - built in 1843 to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill

The Freedom Trail - walking trail connecting Boston's historic sites

Navy Yard - site of the U.S.S. Constitution; constructed in 1800

Phipps Street Burying Ground - Charlestown's first cemetery est. 1630

U.S.S. Cassin Young - WWII Fletcher Class Destroyer built in 1943

U.S.S. Constitution - world's oldest commissioned warship built in 1797

Significant Landmarks

Austin Block (92 Main St.) - one of Charlestown's first masonry buildings built 1827

Bunker Hill School (Baldwin and Bunker Hill Streets) - Second Empire-style built 1866

Charlestown Savings Bank (1 Thompson Sq.) - built in 1876

Deacon Larkin House (55 Main St.) - c. 1790s

Edward Everett House (16 Harvard St.) - Federal style architecture built in 1814

Harvard School (45 Harvard St.) - Greek Revival style c. 1840s

Rougan Hall (City Square) - Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival styles c. 1890s

St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church (303 Bunker Hill St.) - Gothic & Celtic Revival built 1862

St. John Episcopal Church (27 Devens St.) - Gothic Revival style built 1870

St. Mary's Church (55 Warren St.) - built 1892

Parks

City Square - first site of the Massachusetts Bay Colony government c. 1630

The Training Field - the common grazing area and militia parade ground during colonial times

 

 
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