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16 unusual facts about Charlestown


Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

Her baby perished also, and mother and son were later interred together at the Hoyt family plot in Charlestown, New Hampshire.

Charles Dillon, 14th Viscount Dillon

Under Strickland Newtown Dillon was built, the first houses being completed in 1846.

Charlestown, County Mayo

Michael O'Doherty, Archbishop of Manila, was born in Charlestown, and it was also the home town of Margaret Sweeney, grandmother of Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis.

Charlestown, Fife

Some of the German Imperial Fleet were brought here from Scapa Flow after World War I to be broken up.

They have a 1st XI and a 2nd XI that play in the Scottish East League run by the East of Scotland Cricket Association and have junior, midweek and Sunday teams as well.

Charlestown, New South Wales

The suburb contains four primary schools; the State schools of Charlestown Primary, Charlestown South Primary and Charlestown East Primary, and the Catholic Diocese's St Joseph's Convent Primary School.

Charlestown, Rhode Island

Burlingame State Park and Campground is entirely contained inside the town of Charlestown.

Danny Walsh

Considering himself a “gentleman farmer”, Walsh had spent much of his money on thoroughbreds which he raised for his farm in Charlestown, Rhode Island, although he owned two high-class apartments in the east side of Providence and a waterfront mansion in Charlestown.

Eric Lutes

Lutes was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and raised in Charlestown, Rhode Island, the son of Claire, an astrologer and psychiatric nurse, and John Lutes, an artist.

Ernest Melville DuPorte

He began his education at the Charlestown Boys Primary School in Charlestown, where he excelled and drew the attention of H.C. Huggins, who awarded him a scholarship for secondary school studies at St. Kitts-Nevis Grammar School in Basseterre.

Gabrielle Wolohojian

A lesbian, Wolohojian lives in Charlestown with her partner Maura Healey, a career prosecutor who has announced her candidacy for Massachusetts Attorney General in the 2014 election.

Janeen Webb

The daughter of a WW2 Australian Army commando and salesman, Janeen Webb was brought up in the Newcastle suburb of Charlestown and was educated at schools locally.

Supreme Court of Indiana

In December 1816 Jonathan Jennings, Indiana's first governor, nominated John Johnson of Vincennes Knox County; James Scott of Charlestown Clark County; and Jesse Holman of Aurora Dearborn County, to serve as the first panel of judges on the Indiana Supreme Court.

West Indies Power

West Indies Power is a geothermal power company registered in the Netherlands Antilles and with the head office in Charlestown, Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Will D. Howe

Will Dave Howe (Charlestown, Indiana, August 25, 1873 - December 6, 1946) was an American educator, editor and co-author.

WYCX-CD

Programming is also seen on WVBQ-LP channel 47 in Newport and Charlestown, New Hampshire.


Bath, Saint Kitts and Nevis

it is located on the west or Caribbean coast of the island, just south of Charlestown, near the southernmost end of Gallows Bay.

BHCC

Bunker Hill Community College, a community college in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

Chariho Regional School District

The district operates four elementary schools, two of which are located in Hopkinton, in the villages of Ashaway and Hope Valley, one in Charlestown, and one in Richmond.

Charlestown Mob

The gang was headed by the McLaughlin brothers (Bernie, Georgie, and Edward McLaughlin) and their associates, brothers Stevie and Connie Hughes from Charlestown.

Frederick J. Loudin

Loudin was born to free parents in Charlestown Township, Portage County, Ohio, circa 1836.

George Rumford Baldwin

George married December 6, 1837, the stepdaughter of his brother, Loammi Baldwin, Jr., namely, Catherine Richardson Beckford, daughter of Captain Thomas and Catherine (Williams) Beckford, of Charlestown.

The following were some of his early engagements: 1821, built P. C. Brook's stone bridge; 1822–1823, in Pennsylvania with his brother; 1823–1825, at factories in Lowell; 1826, surveyed Charlestown Navy Yard also known as the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown; executed Marine Railway; 1831–1833, in England; 1833–1834, on the Boston and Lowell Railroad; 1834–1836, in Nova Scotia; 1837, in Georgia, on Brunswick Canal.

Gunpowder Incident

In early September, General Thomas Gage, the royal governor of Massachusetts, had removed gunpowder from a powder magazine in Charlestown (in a location now in Somerville), and militia from all over New England had flocked to the area in response to false rumors that violence had been involved.

Henry E. Chambers

Maria Charles was a daughter of Caleb and Sarah Charles of Lovell in Oxford County, Maine, and a descendat of John Charles, pioneer settler in 1636 of Charlestown, Massachusetts.

HP Hood

While Hood no longer produces milk at their facility along Interstate 93 in Charlestown, they do conduct all their research and development there and the building is still referred to as "the Hood plant" by traffic reporters.

Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South

In 2002 IWA Mid-South would once again move its base to Clarksville, Indiana following a disagreement with the landlord of the Charlestown building over rent.

John Tolbert

(Charlestown, West Virginia, 12 July 1905 – 1999) was an American local education activist and local politician from Leesburg, Virginia.

Joseph L. Barber

Barber was born on March 24, 1864 in the community of Hayton, Wisconsin in the town of Charlestown, Wisconsin.

Kahibah, New South Wales

In a letter dated 12 October 1842, to W. Kirchner of Sydney, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt describes a walk through the valley on his way from Newcastle to Redhead via Charlestown.

Mark Catesby

Catesby settled in Charlestown, and traveled to other parts of eastern North America and the West Indies, collecting plants and animals.

Paul Revere's Ride

He would await the signal across the river in Charlestown and be ready to spread the alarm throughout Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Siege of Boston

They particularly blocked the Charlestown Neck (the only land access to Charlestown), and the Boston Neck (the only land access to Boston, which was then a peninsula), leaving only the harbor and sea access under British control.

South County Newspapers

The South County paper covers South Kingstown (including the villages of Kingston, Peace Dale and Wakefield), Narragansett and Charlestown, Rhode Island.

The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775

The foreground is littered with bodies from both sides of the conflict, and the background includes clusters of colonial and British troops carrying flags; Boston Harbor is also visible in the distance, although the sky is partially obscured by smoke (which rose from Charlestown, which had been torched by the British).

Washington Street Elevated

The initial section of the Main Line Elevated opened on June 10, 1901, running from Sullivan Square in Charlestown over the Charlestown Elevated, through the Canal Street Incline into the Tremont Street Subway, and out the Pleasant Street Portal onto the Washington Street Elevated.

WLUE

WLUE-FM, a radio station (104.3 FM) licensed to Charlestown, Indiana, United States