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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"The Americans are excessively curious, especially the mob: they cannot bear anything like a secret - that's unconstitutional." 

- Captain Marryat explaining the Ursuline Convent riot, from A Diary in America, With Remarks on Its Institutions (1839)

#charlestown massachusetts #ursuline convent riots #riot #ursuline nuns #united states history #anti-catholicism #mob justice #massachusetts history #literary quote #political culture #united states constitution

[nickdewolfarchive]

boston, massachusetts june 1972 bunker hill day parade, charlestown

photograph by nick dewolf https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/49583679331

#photography #film #color #35mm #streetphotography #boston #massachusetts #charlestown #parade #people #crowd #youngwoman #policeman #beer #cigarette #1970s

[aboutoriginality]

#boston massachusetts #charlestown

[myworldpassport]

USS Constitution sits in the Charlestown Navy Yards, Boston Harbor

Old Ironsides has such a long and colorful history! It’s fascinating going through the museum dedicated to this ship first launched in 1797. You can even board the ship which has been preserved and check out what life was like-giving you a real feel of the times ⭐️

➡️Boston Nat’l Historic Park, March 2022

#boston massachusetts #boston #beautifuldestinations #uss constitution #old ironsides #boston harbor #charlestown #travelphotography #2022 #navy yard

[theirmarks]

Webcowet. Webcowitt. Webcowwitos mark. 

Massachusett. At home at the places that are today called Charlestown, Medford, Winchester, Massachusetts and surrounding areas. A pawau or spiritual leader, closely tied to the Sachem of Mistick after the death of her partner, Nanepashemet.

Photo 1: Land transfer marked in November 1636;  the Sachem of Mistick references a tract of land “from Charlestown to Cambr[idge] which lays against the ponds at Mistick…”

Photo 2: The mark on this deed from April 15 1639. The deed describes land proximate to Charlestown, reserving lands along Mistick Pond for the Sachem of Mistick and her people to use for planting and hunting until her death. 

Webcowitt’s Kin: Squaw Sachem of Mistick*

Seen at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

*In a previous post about the Sachem of Mistick we offered suggestions and information around the use of the term Squaw in the primary document and in subsequent references to the female sachem of Mistick. The term has been appropriated and the Algonquian word (and once honorific term) is now widely considered to be offensive and derogatory.

#webcowitt #mistick #massachusett #charlestown #cambridge #massachusetts #theirmarks #easternwoodlands #nativehistory #sachemofmistick #17thcentury #masshistoricalsociety #algonquian

[roadtripnewengland]

Lego creation- the USS Constitution at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts

#Lego #Lego ship #Lego model #model making #navy #navy ship #tall ships #USS constitution #sea shanty #Boston #Charlestown #Massachusetts #travel

[caschw]

Lots to do, Art in the Park is Saturday!

Lots to do, Art in the Park is Saturday!

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#art #Boston #buy art #Charlestown #gouache #landscape #Massachusetts #oil painting #painting #Plein Air #Still Life

[ts-wicked-wonders]

Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States.

After moving to Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1852, Rebecca Crumpler worked as a nurse for eight years. At that time, the lack of official schools of nursing meant she required no formal training for the job. But she certainly wasn't afraid of some hard work. She was admitted into the New England Female Medical College in 1860 and graduated four years later with her M.D.

After the end of the Civil War in 1865, Dr. Crumpler moved to Richmond, Virginia to provide medical care for the freed slaves who would otherwise have no one else to turn to. She dedicated herself to the understanding of diseases that particularly afflicted women and children, and when she eventually returned to Massachusetts, she opened her own clinic in Boston. She saw poverty stricken patients and treated them regardless of their ability to pay her.

Read more: https://www.nps.gov/people/dr-rebecca-lee-crumpler.htm

#black excellence #black history matters #black and proud #black americans #black history #black woman #black history month #black tumblr #black women #african america history #african american history

[ltwilliammowett]

Door no. 16 and today a very old lady shows up - but please do not believe that she is harmless. Her name "Old Ironside" is not without reason. I think you know who you have here - of course it's USS Constitution

USS Constitution, photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Skyler Okerman, 2022

A few more infos about her:

Constitution, warship renowned in American history. One of the first frigates built for the U.S. Navy, she was launched in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 21, 1797; she is the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat. (The HMS Victory is older (1765) but is preserved in a drydock at Portsmouth, England.)

The Constitution’s overall length is 204 feet (62 metres), its displacement is 2,200 tons, and its gun range is 1,200 yards (1,100 metres). The bolts fastening its timbers and copper sheathing on the bottom were made by the silversmith and patriot Paul Revere. Rated as a 44-gun frigate, it ordinarily carried more than 50 guns and a crew of some 450. Original cost of the vessel exceeded $300,000, including guns and equipment. In the successful war against the Tripoli pirates (1801–05), the Constitution was Commodore Edward Preble’s flagship, and the treaty of peace was signed aboard it. During the War of 1812 it achieved an enduring place in American naval tradition. On August 19, 1812, commanded by Captain Isaac Hull, it won a brilliant victory over the British frigate Guerriere. Tradition has it that during this encounter the American sailors, on seeing British shot failing to penetrate the oak sides of their ship, dubbed it “Old Ironsides.” Several other victories added to its fame. When in 1830 the ship was condemned as unseaworthy and recommended for breaking up, public sentiment was aroused by Oliver Wendell Holmes’s poem “Old Ironsides.”

The ship was preserved, its rebuilding was provided for in 1833, and in 1844 it began a circumnavigation of the globe. The Constitution was removed from active service in 1882, and in 1905 it was opened to the public in Boston Harbor. After a restoration (1927–31) the ship was recommissioned; although it did not sail under its own power, it called at 90 American ports on both coasts and was visited by more than 4.5 million people. Since 1934 it has been based at the Charlestown Navy Yard (now part of the Boston National Historic Park).

In celebration of its bicentennial, the newly renovated Constitution sailed again in July 1997. It also sailed in August 2012 to mark the 200th anniversary of its victory over the Guerriere during the War of 1812.

#naval history #naval artifacts #uss constitution #18th century #19th century #age of sail #advent calendar #day 16

[whencyclopedia]

Battle of Bunker Hill

The Battle of Bunker Hill (17 June 1775) was a major engagement in the initial phase of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), fought primarily on Breed's Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The colonial troops successfully defended Breed's Hill against two British attacks, but ultimately retreated after a third assault. The battle was a British victory but cost them heavy casualties.

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#History #AmericanRevolution #SiegeOfBoston

[clove-pinks]

Ship's bell and festive rigging of USS Constitution, Charlestown Massachusetts.

#uss constitution #frigate #christmas #ship's bell #age of sail #tall ship #us navy #winter #yule #new england

[nickdewolfarchive]

boston, massachusetts june 1972

faces in the crowd bunker hill day parade, charlestown

photograph by nick dewolf https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/49614057412

#photography #film #color #35mm #streetphotography #boston #massachusetts #charlestown #parade #people #woman #women #drink #cigarette #clothing #1970s

[airyairyaucontraire]

Just got curious and learned that the disco ball, originally called a mirror ball, seems to have been invented by members of an electricians' union in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1897 for their annual ball.

So while they're now most associated with the disco boom of the 1970s, there were mirror balls decorating dance halls and ballrooms going back to the turn of the 20th century, though they might look anachronistic to present-day viewers in period-set movies and TV.

Unfortunately, The Gilded Age is set in 1882.

[lonestarbattleship]

USS Texas (1892) in Boston harbor, Massachusetts. The Hoosac Grain Elevator and Charlestown are on left in the background.

Date: 1904 to 1909

Information and photo from Navsource: link

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[theirmarks]

**Content Warning: Racist/Misogynistic Slur**

Squaw Sachem. Squaw Sachem of Mistick. Saunkskwa of Missitekw. Skosachoms mark.

Her homelands spreading across the areas of present day Charlestown to Concord, MA. and across Massachusett, Nipmuc and Pawtucket territories. This land deed for a tract of land from so-called Charlestown and Cambridge, Massachusetts, “against the ponds at Misticke” to Jotham Gibbons. Marked on the 13th of November, 1636. Leader across several Massachusett and Pawtucket communities before, during and after the death of her first partner, Nanepashemet (d. 1619). She died in 1667.

Her Kin: Nanepashemet, a partner. ​​Their sons, Wonohaquaham (or Sagamore John), Montowampate (or Sagamore James), and Wenepoykin (or Sagamore George). Wompachowet or Webcowit, a partner. Their daughter, Yawata (or Sarah).

This post offers an opportunity for reflection and discussion around the appropriation and derogatory meaning the Algonquian word (and once honorific term) “squaw” or “sonksqua” now holds. This document also calls to attention the lack of documentation of this leader’s Massachusett name. Despite her mark appearing on many ‘legal’ documents in the 17th century, her given name was never recorded. Perhaps Saunskskwa/Sonksqua was her chosen identity; perhaps colonizers weren’t concerned enough to record her other name(s). 

Land deed, 13 November, 1636, recorded 1656. Seen @ Massachusetts Historical Society

#Massachusett #Sonksqua #Nanepashemet #Webcowit #hermark #theirmarks #17thcentury #17c #Massachusetts #algonquian #easternwoodlands #nativehistory #sachem #Cambridge #Charlestown #masshistoricalsociety

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1847 – The American relief ship, USS Jamestown, landed supplies in Cork for An Gorta Mór victims.

More than a century ago, James Coleman published a short article, ‘Voyage of the “Jamestown”’, in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, in which he recounted the arrival of the US warship Jamestown in Cork Harbour on Monday 12 April 1847. The vessel had departed from the Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, two weeks earlier, on 28 March, with a capacity cargo of some…

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#An Gorta Mor #Boston #Co. Cork #Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society #Massachusetts #The Great Hunger #USS Jamestown