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Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. [1] Also called Mishawum by the Massachusett, it is located on a peninsula north of the Charles River, across from downtown Boston, and also adjoins the Mystic River and Boston Harbor waterways.
When the moratorium expired and Charlestown reopened to the slave trade in 1750, the memory of the Stono Rebellion resulted in traders avoiding buying enslaved people from the Congo and Angola, whose populations had a reputation for independence. By the mid-18th century, Charlestown was the hub of the Atlantic slave trade in the Southern Colonies.
Breed's Hill is a glacial drumlin located in the Charlestown section of Boston, Massachusetts.It is located in the southern portion of the Charlestown Peninsula, a historically oval, but now more roughly triangular, peninsula that was originally connected to the mainland portion of Charlestown (now the separate city of Somerville) in colonial times by a short, narrow isthmus known as the ...
By the mid-18th century, Charlestown, described as "the Jerusalem of American slavery, its capital and center of faith", [18]: 89 was the hub of the Atlantic trade of England's southern colonies. Even with the decade-long moratorium, its customs processed around 40% of the African slaves brought to North America between 1700 and 1775.
Peninsula Semicolons separate the original boundaries and boundary increases of January 30, 1970 , July 16, 1978 , August 2, 1984 , August 13, 1985 , and March 27, 1986 . The increase of 1978 is denominated "Charleston Historic District", and the increases of 1985 and 1986 are denominated "Charleston Old and Historic District".
Roughan Hall is a historic commercial building at 10 City Square, the historic central square of the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.Built in 1892 and enlarged in 1896, it is the square's only surviving 19th-century commercial building, and a distinctive example of Romanesque and Renaissance Revival architecture.
Shawmut Peninsula is the promontory of land on which Boston, Massachusetts was built. The peninsula , originally a mere 789 acres (3.19 km 2 ) in area, [ 1 ] more than doubled in size due to land reclamation efforts that were a feature of the history of Boston throughout the 19th century.
The Manigault House is located near the center of the Charleston peninsula, at the corner of Meeting and John Streets. It is a three-story brick structure, set on a raised brick foundation. The main facade has a two-story porch across the center three bays, with elaborate doorways on both floors featuring slender pilasters and sidelight windows.