The United States Marines guarded the Charlestown Navy Yard throughout its entire history as an active Navy installation. They also served aboard ships like USS Constitution during the War of 1812. Come learn how they served both ashore and at sea! See educational displays, musket firing demonstrations, period drill and speak to the Marines and other […]
Come meet and talk with the USS Constitution 1812 Marines as we visit the home of Christopher Gore (1758 - 1827) during the Gore Place Annual Sheep Shearing Festival. Coming from a family divided by loyalties during the American Revolution Christopher Gore sided with the colonists. He was a lawyer, a diplomat and a […]
Essex’s Annual Burning of the Ships Day commemorates one of the worst events in the town’s history. During the War of 1812, on a cold April night in 1814 a British raiding force of Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines rowed six miles up the Connecticut River to burn the privateers of Pettipaug, now the […]
The United States Marines guarded the Charlestown Navy Yard throughout its entire history as an active Navy installation. They also served aboard ships like USS Constitution during the War of 1812. Come learn how they served both ashore and at sea! See educational displays, musket firing demonstrations, period drill and speak to the Marines and other […]
The United States Marines guarded the Charlestown Navy Yard throughout its entire history as an active Navy installation. They also served aboard ships like USS Constitution during the War of 1812. Come learn how they served both ashore and at sea! See educational displays, musket firing demonstrations, period drill and speak to the Marines and other […]
The United States Marines guarded the Charlestown Navy Yard throughout its entire history as an active Navy installation. They also served aboard ships like USS Constitution during the War of 1812. Come learn how they served both ashore and at sea! See educational displays, musket firing demonstrations, period drill and speak to the Marines and other […]
The United States Marines guarded the Charlestown Navy Yard throughout its entire history as an active Navy installation. They also served aboard ships like USS Constitution during the War of 1812. Come learn how they served both ashore and at sea! See educational displays, musket firing demonstrations, period drill and speak to the Marines and other […]
The United States Marines guarded the Charlestown Navy Yard throughout its entire history as an active Navy installation. They also served aboard ships like USS Constitution during the War of 1812. Come learn how they served both ashore and at sea! See educational displays, musket firing demonstrations, period drill and speak to the Marines and other […]
