To pay homage to the Project’s historical context, the open space network design includes a proposed “battle loop” trail segment in anticipation of a potential future connection to an interpretive battle trail throughout Charlestown. The trail will convey pedestrians through a series of interpretive elements, such as decorative site walls that reference the defensive walls erected during the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Site will also use earthwork and ground plane patterning to reference the historical shaping of the land, including the glacial forces that created the drumlins that comprise Charlestown, and the land-making processes that expanded the Charlestown land mass into the sea. An interpretive feature will mark the historic edge of the land mass, near the project’s north edge.
