Vision

Advancement of a Charlestown District Action Plan
to secure national historic district status that honors our nation’s first veterans and commemorates
our neighborhood’s role on
June Seventeenth, 1775.

This plan will actualize the Bunker Hill Battlefield as the site of multiple historic firsts in our budding nation, a battlefield that unfairly remains unprotected by any landmarks designation: 

1. The first military field and defensive construction works of the United States Army supervised by General Richard Gridley of the Massachusetts Provincial Forces and constructed by Colonel William Prescott of the “Massachusetts Minutemen”, 

2. The first artillery emplacements of the United States Army Artillery Corps formed consignant to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company as established under the provision and authority of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Major General Joseph Warren, Commander in Chief, 

3. The first assembly and battle formation of the official United Colonial Continental New England Army at the “Rail Fence and Grass Protection” field [creations as] WAS organized by militia regiments from New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, with supporting artillery emplacements between the redoubt and the Mystic River,

4. The first calvary entitlement of the United States Army by the provision of Connecticut General Israel Putnam and his mount, and

5. The first battle engagement of the Revolutionary War.