Site of Charlestown Wharf
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Site of Charlestown Wharf Stone wharf and warehouse were built here by decree of General Assembly in 1744. Remains of wharf can be seen. Officers' chests left behind by two companies of Royal American Regiment quartered in winter of 1756-1757 were auctioned by town commissioners c. 1759. During Revolutionary War this was a major supply depot for American armies.
In 1813 British troops destroyed earthworks built to guard wharf and town. Colonial Charlestown Incorporated and Maryland Historical Society
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