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Charlestown Navy Yard

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Noun1.Charlestown Navy Yard - the navy yard in Boston where the frigate `Constitution' is anchored
Bean Town, Beantown, Boston, capital of Massachusetts, Hub of the Universe - state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services


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Allen "planted acorns, chestnuts and locusts" in Massachusetts, and wood from his trees was "used in the Charlestown Navy Yard for building vessels during the War of the Rebellion," the Civil War.
One legend credits it being originated at a restaurant in Scollay Square in Boston, MA at the beginning of World War II, and whose customers were large numbers of navy servicemen stationed at the Charlestown Navy Yard who coined the name sub after the hull of the submarine.
He scored one of his first contracts, worth $380,000, with the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to clean and maintain more than 200,000 square feet of office space in the authority's three buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard.
 
 
 
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