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Initially a residential suburb, Bunker Hill retained its exclusive character through the end of World War I.Around the 1920s and the 1930s, with the advent of the Pacific Electric Railway and the construction of the freeway, and the increased urban growth fed by an extensive streetcar system, its wealthy residents began leaving for enclaves such as Beverly Hills and Pasadena.
The Battle of Bunker Hill: Now We Are at War, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan; TheAmericanRevolution.org description of the battle; BritishBattles.com description of the battle; Animated History of the Battle of Bunker Hill Archived October 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine "Bunker Hill" .
The 2nd Street Tunnel is a widely filmed and photographed tunnel on 2nd Street under Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles, California.The Los Angeles Times described it as "the most recognizable city landmark most Americans have never heard of". [1]
Pure Genius (originally titled Bunker Hill) is an American medical drama television series created by Jason Katims that aired on CBS from October 27, 2016 to January 26, 2017. The series stars Augustus Prew as James Bell, who is a Silicon Valley tech billionaire, and Dermot Mulroney as Dr. Walter Wallace.
Major General Edwin A. Pollock assumed command of the 1st Marine Division on 29 August 1952 and he immediately had to deal with renewed PVA pressure against the Bunker Hill complex, now held by Company E, 2/1 Marines, attached temporarily to the regiment's 3d Battalion. On the night of 4 September, PVA gunners began shelling the outpost and ...
The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River was named to honor Zakim's civil rights and race relations work in Boston. Leonard Paul Zakim [1] (November 17, 1953 – December 2, 1999) was a Jewish American religious and civil rights leader in Boston. Zakim died in 1999 after a five-year battle with bone-marrow cancer.
In 2010, the state legislature debated eliminating Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day as official holidays, citing the expense of giving state and local workers paid days off. [7] The state's 2011 budget required all state and municipal offices in Suffolk County to be open on both days.
This graveyard was not taken care of and eventually one of his descendants moved him to the Old Center cemetery, [3] which is now part of the Old Deerfield Center Historic District. [4] Simpson is featured on a New Hampshire historical marker ( number 25 ) along the concurrency of Route 107 and Route 43 in Deerfield.