Charlestown is occupied by indigenous people.

(ca.) Originally called Mishawum (“great landing place”), the area is home to a Massachuset tribe led by led by Sachem Wonohagaham (later called Sagamore John.) The peninsula has three large hills ( later Bunker’s Hill, Breed’s Hill, and Moulton’s Hill) and two smaller ones (later Fort Hill or Town Hill and School Hill (later site of the Phipps Street Burying Ground) and is connected by a narrow neck of land to today’s Somerville.