In Monument Square Historic District, a city park and its surrounding buildings at the top of Breed's Hill in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. The location is the site of the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill. Monument Square was laid out in the 19th Century, when the Bunker Hill Monument (a National Historic Landmark) was erected there. The neighborhood has in recent decades been intensely gentrified.
“I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brookline for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds.’’
— Jonathan Tucker (born 1982), American actor
