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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11KL_bunker-hill-burying-ground_Boston-MA.html
Established in 1810, this is Charlestown's second oldest burying ground, and the site of the left wing of Colonial forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. A monument marks the location of the Rail Fence and Stone Wall fortified by the colonis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11KJ_the-line-of-rail-fence-and-grass-protection_Boston-MA.html
The line of Rail Fence and Grass Protection formed after the British Troops landed on the seventeenth of June extended in this direction to Mystic River
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11KH_charlestown-heights_Boston-MA.html
Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., America's foremost landscape architect and the creator of Boston's Emerald Necklace and New York's Central Park, designed Charlestown Heights, now Doherty Playground, in 1891. With an increasing population and decreasin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11KG_charlestown-heights_Boston-MA.html
Designed in 1891 by the firm of America's foremost park planner and landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, this playground is one of the best surviving examples of the neighborhood parks in Boston's original system. Olmsted divided the park i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CB_american-soldiers-killed-june-17-1775_Boston-MA.html
Tablet #1:Connecticut Troops—————Roger Fox, William Cheeney, Asahel Lyon, Matthew Cummings, Samuel Ashbo, Gershom Smith, Benjamin Ross, Daniel Memory, Wilson RowlandsonSoldiers Unassigned————&m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXLR_birthplace-of-the-telephone_Boston-MA.html
Here on June 2, 1875,Alexander Graham Bell andThomas A. Watsonfirst transmitted sound over wires.This successful experiment was completed in a fifth floor garret at what was then 109 Court Street and marked the beginning of world-wide telephone se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXLN_power-system-of-bostons-rapid-transit_Boston-MA.html
IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and ComputingPower System of Boston's Rapid Transit, 1889Boston was the first city to build electric traction for a large-scale rapid transit system. The engineering challenge to design and construct safe, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW2Y_north-square_Boston-MA.html
Here in North SquareLived Paul Revere and his wifeRachel Revere for whom this overlook is named*?*?*?*?*?*?*?Here lived Major Pitcairnof the soldieryoccupying Boston in 1775Governor Thomas HutchinsonSir Harry FranklandWilliam Clark
The alarm th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRUN_commodore-john-barry_Boston-MA.html
Born in Wexford Ireland 1745Died in Philadelphia 1803Received first commissionfrom the Continental Congressto command the Lexington 1775Sailed from Boston on the Raleigh 1778Acclaimed in Boston in 1780for victories on the AllianceAppointed in 1794…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR8E_boston-molasses-flood_Boston-MA.html
On January 15, 1919, a molasses tank at 529 Commercial Street exploded under pressure, killing 21 people. A 40-foot wave of molasses buckled the elevated railroad tracks, crushed buildings and inundated the neighborhood. Structural defects in the …