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  Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States  

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Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America
Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay, British America

 


City/Town : Latitude: 42.3777806, Longitude: -71.0625000

Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Links

See also: Boston
Charlestown History in Pictures and Maps
Charlestown Historical Society
Charlestown Preservation Society




Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Timeline

1648
15 Jun:  Margaret Jones, a midwife from Charlestown, is the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.HoMA LoA
1927
23 Aug:  Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti die in the electric chair.ZEP MA
1938
21 Sep:  The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 slams into Long Island and southern New England.NOAA NEHS
1978
6 Feb:  A savage blizzard packing hurricane force winds hits the northeast U. S. with a major impact on Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island dumping up to four feet of snow on many places, paralyzing highways for days and tearing up the coastline.Boston.com MassMoments WWI