In 1630 John Winthrop, the first governor, settled in Charlestown with a group of English colonists, some of whom eventually relocated across the Charles River to what became Boston. In Charlestown, ...
A leafy, bucolic bastion of early colonial history, Massachusetts remains just as ... Charles River to Boston’s oldest neighbourhood, Charlestown, on 13 June for a weeklong celebration ...
“The destruction of Charlestown, one of the oldest settlements of Massachusetts, proved to the other colonies that the fight in Massachusetts was the fight for ‘Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of ...