All posts tagged "Charlestown"
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5.7K9Flashback PhotosFlashback Photo: Old Ironsides Rescued From the Scrap Heap
The U.S. Navy considered the legendary Navy frigate Old Ironsides a big piece of junk in 1833, until a young Harvard student...
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16.0K9Arts and LeisureAnne Bradstreet, 1st Woman Poet in America
Anne Bradstreet wasn’t just the first woman to be published in England’s North American colonies. She was the first Englishwoman to publish...
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5.2K2MassachusettsThe Battle of Bunker Hill Throws Salem Into a Panic
Shortly before the Battle of Bunker Hill, Edward Augustus Holyoke sent his wife to Nantucket for safety. A respected doctor in Salem,...
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13.3K10MassachusettsBattle of Bunker Hill Distressed Abigail Adams, 10 Miles Away
Decades after the Battle of Bunker Hill distressed Abigail Adams, her son could still get overwrought when he remembered it. Abigail just...
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43.8K19MassachusettsJoseph Warren Dies a Martyr in the Battle of Bunker Hill
Dr. Joseph Warren died a martyr’s death in the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. According to British Gen. Thomas Gage...
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6.4K8Business and LaborSamuel Morse, the Artist Who Invented the Telegraph
‘What Hath God Wrought?’ With those words, the invention known as the telegraph was first put into use in a transmission from...
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