• Colonial Boston Map, Faneuil Hall and the Charlestown Navy Yard skyline

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Kamikaze Attacks on USS Cassin Young 50 mb

Introduction to the Charlestown Navy Yard 24.5 mb

 

Did You Know?

Drawing of Bunker Hill Monument under construction.

Did you know that the financing for The Bunker Hill Monument was a hand-to-mouth project, culminating in a bake sale in 1840, three years before the dedication? By contrast, The Dorchester Heights Monument was financed by an appropriation from the Massachusetts Legislature amounting to $100,000.