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Term: Charlestown

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Located on Boston Harbor between mouths of Charles & Mystic rivers; is oldest part of Boston; was almost destroyed in Battle of Bunker Hill.

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James Frothingham

1786 - 1864
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Joseph Watts

fl. 1830s - 1850s
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Boston Navy Yard

founded 1800
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Charles N. Kimball

1911 - 1994
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Samuel F. B. Morse

1791 - 1892

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