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Charlestown

American  
[chahrlz-taun] / ˈtʃɑrlzˌtaʊn /

noun

  1. a former city in E Massachusetts: since 1874 a part of Boston; navy yard; battle of Bunker Hill June 17, 1775.


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The Arms of Friendship statue at Charlestown Navy Yard received the traffic cone treatment earlier this week.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

It now has its headquarters in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood and an outpost in Puerto Rico.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

You now have a host of restaurants throughout the world, which started all the way back in 1989 with Olives in Charlestown, MA.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024

People played cricket on the streets of the Charlestown neighborhood of Georgetown, Guyana, as the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup kicked off in the U.S. and the West Indies.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

‘I’ll row over to Charlestown tonight, go to Lexington, and tell them a sizable force may soon move. They had best hide themselves for the next few days.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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