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An 1873 map of Harvard Square An 1873 map of Cambridge An 1852 map of Greater Boston highlighting the regional rail lines and course of Middlesex Canal; Cambridge is near the bottom of the map highlighted in yellow, and West Cambridge, which is present-day Arlington, Massachusetts, highlighted in pink
Central Square is the seat of government in Cambridge. Cambridge City Hall , and the main branch of the Cambridge Post Office are located in this area. The Cambridge Police Department headquarters was formerly at 5 Western Avenue in the Central Square area; however, between November 2008 and March 2009 [ 11 ] it completed a relocation to a new ...
East Cambridge was originally an island at high tide, surrounded by marshland. [2] The Millers River, called Willis Creek in colonial times, passed just to the north.The shoreline is shown as Lechmere's Point on Revolutionary War maps, and was the landing point for British troops en route to the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Massachusetts Avenue enters from the southeast (a few miles after crossing the Charles River from Boston at MIT), and turns sharply to the north at the intersection, which is dominated by a large pedestrian space incorporating the current MBTA subway headhouse (entrance), an older subway headhouse building which formerly housed a newsstand, a ...
Two definitions are used by the United States Census to define the Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metro Area or Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan NECTA, which is defined as a New England City and Town Area. [21] [22] The metro area definition is based on counties, while the NECTA definition is based on city and town ...
A building once part of the Kendall Boiler and Tank Company, a landmark at Binney and Third Streets. Originally a salt marsh on the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge, [5] Kendall Square has been an important transportation hub since the construction of the West Boston Bridge in 1793, [citation needed] which provided the first direct wagon route between the two settlements.
Alewife Brook Parkway is a short parkway in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts.It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.It begins at Fresh Pond in Cambridge (linking to Fresh Pond Parkway via Concord Avenue), and heads north on the east bank of Alewife Brook, crossing into West Somerville and ending at the Mystic River on the Medford town line, where it becomes Mystic ...
An Orient Heights–Central Square, Cambridge through service was started, while several Cambridge streetcar lines entered the new tunnel and terminated on a pocket track at Scollay Under. [20] The northbound (Cornhill Street) entrance was closed on November 24, 1917, forcing all passengers to use the southbound Tremont Row entrance. [21]