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A SENSE OF PLACE IN THE SHADOW OF HISTORY For residents Monument Square, the past is part of the neighborhood
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Everyone knows the American colonists lost the Battle of Bunker
Hill but won the war for independence. Many people even know the
battle was actually fought on Breed's Hill. Tourists -- and many a
Bostonian -- may wonder who lives on Monument Square in Charlestown,
a square of mostly 19th-century houses surrounding the sublime gray
stone obelisk that is the Bunker Hill Monument. Our tour begins at
the monument itself, where on this particular day, there's a musket
demonstration.
A Park...
