Charlestown Navy Yard

Established in 1800, the Charlestown Navy Yard served the American fleet throughout each of the nation’s wars until it’s closing in 1974. During this period, the navy yard produced more than two hundred warships and repaired thousands. From its inception ...

Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport

This historic aviation facility is named in honor of longtime medical pathologist, Jackson County coroner, judge, and Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, Charles B. Wheeler. In appreciation of his dedication to air service expansion for the people of the ...

Charlestown Heights

Designed in 1891 by the firm of America's foremost park planner and landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, this playground is one of the best surviving examples of the neighborhood parks in Boston's original system. Olmsted divided the park into three ...

The Independent or Congregational Church of Charlestown

Founded 1681

The brickwork below is thought to be from the second of four buildings to house the church.

Constructed in 1732, it was replaced in 1804 by a Robert Mills designed sanctuary, circular in shape. Said to be the ...

Way to Charlestown

1630 – 1930

Washington Street, Somerville, and Kirkland and Brattle Streets, Cambridge, "Skirting marshes and river," follow the old Indian trail from Charlestown to Watertown. Along this way in 1636 went the Reverend Thomas Hooker and his congregation on their exodus ...

Charles H. Townes Center for Science

This four-building science center is named for Greenville native and Furman Trustee Charles Hard Townes, Furman Class of 1935, son of Furman alumni Henry K, '97 and Ellen Hard '02 Townes.

Lifelong innovator and teacher, he was presented the Noble Prize ...

Charlestown Navy Yard

The Charleston Navy Yard was established in 1800 to build, repair, and supply the nation's warships. For 174 years the yard expanded and adapted to serve a growing, changing navy.

In early years, skilled workers build and repaired wooden sloops, ...

Dr. Charles Hard Townes

Born in Greenville, S.C. 1915.

Graduate of Furman University 1935.

Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 1964.

Templeton Price Winner 2005.

Designated one of the world's most

influential 1,000 men

of the past 1,000 years.

Depicted at the moment of his “revelation” of the equation

for the laser and ...

Old Charlestown – Watertown Path

Reverend Thomas Hooker and his congregation took this path on their exodus from Cambridge in 1636. The strong bent of their spirits caused them to seek new lands and eventually to found Hartford in Connecticut.

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View of Garden ...

Charles Washington's Town

You now stand in the center of a town that is almost as old as the United States, laid out on 80 acres of Washington lands in 1786 - four years before the First President took office.

Charles Washington, youngest of ...