A report on Charles River

View of the bridge over Charles River, New York Public Library

View of the Charles River, Memorial Drive in Cambridge(foreground), and the Back Bay skyline at night

A sunny day on the Charles River Esplanade

Sailboats moored on the Charlestown side of the Charles River with Bunker Hill Monument in the distance

Sunset at Charles River in December 2010

View of the Charles River, Community Rowing, Inc. and Boston from Nonantum.

The Charles River from the Boston side, facing Weld Boathouse and the main campus of Harvard University in Cambridge.

View of Charles River at Newton Upper Falls

Charles River under Echo Bridge in Newton

Charles River at Medfield-Millis town line

Charles River basin from an office tower in Boston.

View of the Charles River and Downtown Boston from the Boston University Bridge

80 mi river in eastern Massachusetts.

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Boston

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Capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States and 24th-most populous city in the country.

In 1773, a group of angered Bostonian citizens threw a shipment of tea by the East India Company into Boston Harbor as a response to the Tea Act, in an event known as the Boston Tea Party.

Map showing a British tactical evaluation of Boston in 1775.

Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It, 1860, by J.W. Black, the first recorded aerial photograph

View of downtown Boston from Dorchester Heights, 1841

The was home to the Boston city council from 1865 to 1969.

General view of Boston, by J. J. Hawes, c. 1860s–1880s

Boston as seen from ESA Sentinel-2. Boston Harbor, at the center, has made Boston a major shipping port since its founding.

200 Clarendon Street is the tallest building in Boston, with a roof height of 790 ft.

Boston's skyline in the background, with fall foliage in the foreground

A graph of cumulative winter snowfall at Logan International Airport from 1938 to 2015. The four winters with the most snowfall are highlighted. The snowfall data, which was collected by NOAA, is from the weather station at the airport.

Per capita income in the Greater Boston area, by US Census block group, 2000. The dashed line shows the boundary of the City of Boston.

Map of racial distribution in Boston, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

Chinatown, with its paifang gate, is home to many Chinese and also Vietnamese restaurants.

U.S. Navy sailors march in Boston's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. Irish Americans constitute the largest ethnicity in Boston.

Boston gay pride march, held annually in June

Old South Church, a United Church of Christ congregation first organized in 1669

Boston Latin School was established in 1635 and is the oldest public high school in the US.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is often cited as among the world's top universities

Harvard Business School, one of the country's top business schools

A Boston Police cruiser on Beacon Street

The Old State House, a museum on the Freedom Trail near the site of the Boston massacre

In the nineteenth century, the Old Corner Bookstore became a gathering place for writers, including Emerson, Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller. Here James Russell Lowell printed the first editions of The Atlantic Monthly.

Symphony Hall, home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Population density and elevation above sea level in Greater Boston (2010)

Fenway Park is the oldest professional baseball stadium still in use.

Harvard Stadium, the first collegiate athletic stadium built in the U.S.

Chamber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the Massachusetts State House

Boston City Hall is a Brutalist landmark in the city

Harvard Medical School, one of the most prestigious medical schools in the world

An MBTA Red Line train departing Boston for Cambridge. Bostonians depend heavily on public transit, with over 1.3 million Bostonians riding the city's buses and trains daily (2013).

South Station, the busiest rail hub in New England, is a terminus of Amtrak and numerous MBTA rail lines.

Headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

There were small Native communities throughout what became Boston, who likely moved between winter homes inland along the Charles River (called Quinobequin, meaning "meandering," by the Native people), where hunting was plentiful and summer homes along the coast where fishing and shellfish beds were plentiful.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area as a major suburb of Boston.

Map showing the original boundaries of Cambridge and other Massachusetts cities and towns

1852 Map of Boston area showing Cambridge and regional rail lines and highlighting the course of the Middlesex Canal. Cambridge is toward the bottom of the map and outlined in yellow, and should not be confused with the pink-outlined and partially cropped "West Cambridge", now Arlington.

A view from Boston of Harvard's Weld Boathouse and Cambridge in winter. The Charles River is in the foreground.

Buildings of Kendall Square, center of Cambridge's biotech economy, seen from the Charles River

Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Aerial view of part of MIT's main campus

The 1888 part of the Cambridge Public Library

The Weeks Bridge provides a pedestrian-only connection between Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood and Cambridge over the Charles River.

Engine 2, Paramedic Squad 2, Ladder 3 firehouse

Situated directly north of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, once also an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Stereographic card showing an MIT mechanical drafting studio, 19th century (photo by E. L. Allen, left/right inverted)

Original Rogers Building, Back Bay, Boston, c. 1901

The then-new Cambridge campus, completed in 1916. The Harvard Bridge (named after John Harvard but otherwise unrelated to Harvard University) is in the foreground, connecting Boston to Cambridge.

Plaque in Building 6 honoring George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, who was revealed as the anonymous "Mr. Smith" who helped maintain MIT's independence

The MIT Media Lab houses researchers developing novel uses of computer technology and shown here is the 1985 building, designed by I.M. Pei, with an extension (right of photo) designed by Fumihiko Maki opened in March 2010

The central and eastern sections of MIT's campus as seen from above Massachusetts Avenue and the Charles River. Left of center is the Great Dome overlooking Killian Court, with Kendall Square to the upper right.

MIT's Building 10 and Great Dome overlooking Killian Court

The Stata Center houses CSAIL, LIDS, and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy

The Simmons Hall undergrad dormitory was completed in 2002

Lobby 7 (at 77 Massachusetts Avenue) is regarded as the main entrance to campus

The Infinite Corridor is the primary passageway through campus.

Eero Saarinen's Kresge Auditorium (1955) is a classic example of post-war architecture

Walker Memorial is a monument to MIT's fourth president, Francis Amasa Walker

MIT main campus seen from Vassar Street, as The Great Dome is visible in the distance and the Stata Center is at right

The GNU project and free software movement originated at MIT

The start of the MIT Mystery Hunt in 2007

The Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center houses a two-story fitness center as well as swimming and diving pools

Institute Professors Emeriti and Nobel Laureates (from left to right) Franco Modigliani (deceased), Paul Samuelson (also deceased), and Robert Solow (picture taken in 2000)

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, ScD 1963 (MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, SM 1972 (MIT Sloan School of Management)

President of Colombia (1986–1990) Virgilio Barco Vargas, SB 1943 (MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Former Federal Reserve Bank chairman Ben Bernanke, PhD 1979 (MIT Department of Economics)

Economics Nobel laureate Esther Duflo, PhD 1999 (MIT Department of Economics), also an MIT professor<ref>{{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae (Esther Duflo) |url=https://economics.mit.edu/files/14455 |publisher=MIT |access-date=13 October 2020}}</ref>

Physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, SB 1939 (MIT Department of Physics)<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard P. Feynman - Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/feynman/biographical/ |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=12 September 2020}}</ref>

Astronaut and USAF Colonel Michael Fincke, SB 1989 (MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics), SB 1989 (MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences)

Sculptor Daniel Chester French, Did not graduate

Economics Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, PhD 1977 (MIT Department of Economics)

Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair, PhD 1976 (MIT Department of Physics)

Israeli Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, SB 1975 (MIT Architecture), SM 1976 (MIT Sloan School of Management)

Architect I. M. Pei, BArch 1940 (MIT Architecture)

Claude Shannon, PhD 1940 (MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

CEO of General Motors Alfred P. Sloan, SB 1895 (MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

"Boston" guitarist Tom Scholz, SB 1969, SM 1970 (MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering)

Astronaut and engineer Mike Massimino, PhD 1992 (MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering)

Chemist and Nobel laureate Robert Burns Woodward, SB 1936, PhD 1937<ref>{{cite web |title=Robert B. Woodward - Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1965/woodward/biographical/ |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=4 October 2020}}</ref>

The institute has an urban campus that extends more than a mile (1.6 km) alongside the Charles River, and encompasses a number of major off-campus facilities such as the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Bates Center, and the Haystack Observatory, as well as affiliated laboratories such as the Broad and Whitehead Institutes.

Boston University

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Private research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone at Boston University

688 Boylston Street, the early home of the College of Liberal Arts, the precursor to the College of Arts & Sciences

Helen Magill White, the first woman to receive a PhD from an American university

Marsh Plaza and its surrounding buildings were one of the first completed parts of the Charles River Campus

Sert's buildings expanded the campus in the 1960s

The back page of the bu exposure, March 1979

Boston University's East Campus along Commonwealth Avenue

The "BU Beach" is a linear strip of land sandwiched between the main BU campus and busy Storrow Drive, and is used as an outdoors space to relax and sunbathe in good weather.

A brownstone townhouse used by Boston University as dormitory

Warren Towers constitutes the second-largest non-military dorm in the country.

Built in 1925 as the Myles Standish Hotel, this building was converted to dorm space in 1949.

Student Village II with Student Village I in the background, as viewed from Nickerson Field

The Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies on Bay State Road

The Castle (built 1915) on Bay State Road

The College of Arts and Sciences fronts along busy Commonwealth Avenue

43 Harrington Gardens, the main academic building for Boston University's London Campus

The Talbot Building located on the medical campus houses the School of Public Health

The Rafik B. Hariri Building houses the Questrom School of Business and the office of the university president

Inside Agganis Arena after a hockey game

Martin Luther King Jr. earned a PhD from BU in 1955

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone

President William Howard Taft lectured at BU School of Law from 1918 to 1921

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Women's March in New York City in 2019

Law Tower (built 1964, Josep Lluís Sert)

Talbot Building, School of Public Health

Instructional building on medical campus

National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories

View of Boston from the John Hancock Student Village

The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is located in Boston's South End neighborhood.

Massachusetts

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Most populous state in the New England region of the United States.

The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882). The Pilgrims founded Plymouth in 1620.

An illustration of the Battles of Lexington and Concord

John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (1797–1801)

Textile mills such as the one in Lowell made Massachusetts a leader in the Industrial Revolution.

John F. Kennedy, Massachusetts native and 35th President of the United States (1961–1963)

A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in South Deerfield

Massachusetts population density map. The centers of high-density settlement, from east to west, are Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Pittsfield, respectively.

Saint Patrick's Day parade in Scituate, the municipality with the highest percentage identifying Irish ancestry in the United States, at 47.5% in 2010. Irish Americans constitute the largest ethnicity in Massachusetts.

Boston's Chinatown, with its paifang gate, is home to many Chinese and also Vietnamese restaurants.

Boston gay pride march, held annually in June. In 2004 Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.

Built in 1681, the Old Ship Church in Hingham is the oldest church in America in continuous ecclesiastical use. Massachusetts has since become one of the most irreligious states in the U.S.

Towns in Massachusetts by combined mean SAT of their public high school district for the 2015–2016 academic year

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, serving Greater Boston

Logan International Airport in Boston is the largest airport in New England in terms of passenger volume

Prominent roads and cities in Massachusetts

The Massachusetts State House, topped by its golden dome, faces Boston Common on Beacon Hill.

Charlie Baker (R), the 72nd Governor of Massachusetts

Boston Pride Parade, 2012. From left: Representative Joe Kennedy III, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and former representative Barney Frank.

The site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond in Concord

Massachusetts has the largest population of the New England states. New Englander culture and identity remains strong in Massachusetts (Flag of New England pictured above).

An outdoor dance performance at Jacob's Pillow in Becket

USS Constitution fires a salute during its annual Fourth of July turnaround cruise

Map showing the average medicare reimbursement per enrollee for the counties in Massachusetts.

Gillette Stadium in Foxborough is the home venue for the New England Patriots (NFL) and the New England Revolution (MLS)

A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts.

Boston is the largest city, at the inmost point of Massachusetts Bay, and the mouth of the Charles River.

Harvard University

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Private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The seal of the Harvard Corporation, found on Harvard diplomas. Christo et Ecclesiae ("For Christ and Church") is one of Harvard's several early mottoes.

Engraving of Harvard College by Paul Revere, 1767

Richard Rummell's 1906 watercolor landscape view, facing northeast.

Massachusetts Hall (1720), Harvard's oldest building

Widener Library anchors the Harvard Library system.

Henry Moore's sculpture Large Four Piece Reclining Figure, near Lamont Library

Tower at the University of Puerto Rico, showing (right) the emblem of Harvardthe oldest in the United Statesand (left) that of National University of San Marcos, Limathe oldest in the Americas

2nd President of the United States John Adams (AB, 1755; AM, 1758)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Barzilay |first1=Karen N. |title=The Education of John Adams |url=https://www.masshist.org/object-of-the-month/objects/the-education-of-john-adams-2007-06-01 |publisher=Massachusetts Historical Society |access-date=20 September 2020 |archive-date=July 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726202845/https://www.masshist.org/object-of-the-month/objects/the-education-of-john-adams-2007-06-01 |url-status=live }}</ref>

6th President of the United States John Quincy Adams (AB, 1787; AM, 1790)<ref>{{cite web |title=John Quincy Adams |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/john-quincy-adams/ |publisher=The White House |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=October 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005104815/https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/john-quincy-adams/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hogan |first1=Margaret A. |title=John Quincy Adams: Life Before the Presidency |date=October 4, 2016 |url=https://millercenter.org/president/jqadams/life-before-the-presidency |publisher=Miller Center |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=August 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812123606/https://millercenter.org/president/jqadams/life-before-the-presidency |url-status=live }}</ref>

Essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (AB, 1821)

Naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau (AB, 1837)

19th President of the United States Rutherford B. Hayes (LLB, 1845)<ref>{{cite web |title=HLS's first alumnus elected as President—Rutherford B. Hayes |url=https://today.law.harvard.edu/hlss-first-alumnus-elected-as-president-rutherford-b-hayes/ |publisher=Harvard Law Today |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414135644/https://today.law.harvard.edu/hlss-first-alumnus-elected-as-president-rutherford-b-hayes/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (AB, 1861, LLB)

Philosopher, logician, and mathematician Charles Sanders Peirce (AB, 1862, SB 1863)

26th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Theodore Roosevelt (AB, 1880)<ref>{{cite web |title=Theodore Roosevelt - Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1906/roosevelt/biographical/ |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=September 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905033556/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1906/roosevelt/biographical/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

32nd President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (AB, 1903)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Leuchtenburg |first1=William E. |title=Franklin D. Roosevelt: Life Before the Presidency |date=October 4, 2016 |url=https://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/life-before-the-presidency |publisher=Miller Center |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=August 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813025557/https://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/life-before-the-presidency |url-status=live }}</ref>

Author, political activist, and lecturer Helen Keller (AB, 1904, Radcliffe College)

Poet and Nobel laureate in literature T. S. Eliot (AB, 1909; AM, 1910)

Physicist and leader of Manhattan Project J. Robert Oppenheimer (AB, 1925)

Economist and Nobel laureate in economics Paul Samuelson (AM, 1936; PhD, 1941)

Musician and composer Leonard Bernstein (AB, 1939)

35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy (AB, 1940)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Selverstone |first1=Marc J. |title=John F. Kennedy: Life Before the Presidency |date=October 4, 2016 |url=https://millercenter.org/president/kennedy/life-before-the-presidency |publisher=Miller Center |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=August 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812190501/https://millercenter.org/president/kennedy/life-before-the-presidency |url-status=live }}</ref>

7th President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson (LLM, 1968)

45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore (AB, 1969)

$24th President of Liberia and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (MPA, 1971)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2011/johnson_sirleaf-bio.html|title=Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Biographical|website=www.nobelprize.org|access-date=October 14, 2020|archive-date=July 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724032807/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2011/johnson_sirleaf-bio.html|url-status=live}}</ref>$

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (AB, 1971; JD, 1975)

11th Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto (AB, 1973, Radcliffe College)

14th Chair of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke (AB, 1975; AM, 1975)

43rd President of the United States George W. Bush (MBA, 1975)<ref>{{cite web |last1=L. Gregg II |first1=Gary |title=George W. Bush: Life Before the Presidency |date=October 4, 2016 |url=https://millercenter.org/president/gwbush/life-before-the-presidency |publisher=Miller Center |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=August 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812225623/https://millercenter.org/president/gwbush/life-before-the-presidency |url-status=live }}</ref>

17th Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts (AB, 1976; JD, 1979)

Founder of Microsoft and philanthropist Bill Gates (College, 1977;<ref group="a" name="nodegree">Nominal Harvard College class year: did not graduate</ref> LLD hc, 2007)

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon (MPA, 1984)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Elena Kagan (JD, 1986)

Former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama (JD, 1988)

Biochemist and Nobel laureate in chemistry Jennifer Doudna (PhD, 1989)<ref>{{cite web|title=Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/press-release/|website=nobelprize.org|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=October 14, 2020|archive-date=October 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008001709/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/press-release/|url-status=live}}</ref>

44th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama (JD, 1991)<ref>{{cite web |title=Barack Obama: Life Before the Presidency |date=October 4, 2016 |url=https://millercenter.org/president/obama/life-before-the-presidency |publisher=Miller Center |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=August 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812142731/https://millercenter.org/president/obama/life-before-the-presidency |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Barack H. Obama - Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/obama/biographical/ |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414110039/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/obama/biographical/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Associate Justice-designate of the Supreme Court of the United States Ketanji Brown Jackson (JD, 1992)

Founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg (College, 2004; LLD hc, 2017)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ketanji Brown Jackson (JD, 1992)

the 209 acre Cambridge campus centered on Harvard Yard; an adjoining campus immediately across the Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston; and the medical campus in Boston's Longwood Medical Area.

Newton, Massachusetts

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City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

Emily Lavan, Heartbreak Hill, 2005 Boston Marathon

A panoramic view of Newton North High School

The Charles River flows along the north and west parts of Newton, and Route 128 passes through the west part of the city.

Longfellow Bridge

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The main piers have sculptures that represent the prows of Viking ships.

The predecessor West Boston Bridge, circa 1864.

The new Cambridge Bridge viewed from Boston, sometime between 1906 and 1912. Streetcar tracks can be seen on each side, but the central rapid transit tracks are not yet in use.

Structural elements on a barge in Cambridge, Massachusetts, waiting to be installed

The Longfellow Bridge is a steel rib arch bridge spanning the Charles River to connect Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood with the Kendall Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Watertown, Massachusetts

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City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston.

Saltonstall's landing spot in Watertown, also known as Elbridge Gerry Landing

Edmund Fowle House, built in the 1700s and used by the Massachusetts government during the Revolutionary War

Hairenik Association building – Watertown, Mass.

To the north, it is bordered by the town of Belmont, along Belmont Street; to the south, it is bordered by Newton and Brighton—the border being largely formed by the Charles River.

The Bunker Hill Monument and William Prescott Statue

Charlestown, Boston

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Oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States.

1629 site of Puritan leader John Winthrop's "Great House" in City Square, uncovered during the Big Dig

Bird's-eye view of Boston, Charlestown, and Bunker Hill, between 1890 and 1910

Interior of St. Mary's Church (1887–1893)

Bunker Hill Monument. Bunker Hill Day, Boston, and Charlestown, between 1890 and 1901

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.