“The only plan the BRA has ever had for Charlestown is to pave over it’s history.”
Backstory
Righting a Historic Wrong:
The Charlestown
battlefield sites of
June 17th, 1775 through March 17th, 1776
are not listed on the national, state, or local registers.
At no time has a federal, state, or city agency stepped in to consider preserving any measure of the land as an open green space battle trail commemoration or as a battlefield district.
A loophole in the 1874 Annexation Law has enabled the Boston Landmarks Commission to shirk its responsibility to landmark Charlestown’s battlefield history.
Despite repeated requests to the BLC to do its job, pleas for remedy have been spurned.
Why should Boston's oldest neighborhood be left to the mercy of the BPDA, and its urban renewal tools, when safeguards designed to protect and enhance historic neighborhoods like Charlestown exist today?