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Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site. West Cambridge, also known as "Area 10", is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts.It is bounded by the Charles River on the south, JFK Street on the east, Concord Avenue on the north, and Fresh Pond, Aberdeen Avenue, and the Watertown line on the west.
The West Boston Bridge (a toll bridge) was constructed in 1793 by a group of private investors with a charter from the Commonwealth. At the time, there were only a handful of buildings in East Cambridge. The opening of the bridge caused a building boom along Main Street in Cambridge, which connected the bridge to Old Cambridge.
Longfellow Bridge: Route 3 (Main St/Cambridge St) MBTA Red Line: 1907 650.7 meters (2,135 ft) [1] MBTA Red Line in median; built in 1907 as the Cambridge Bridge, renamed for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1927. Site of West Boston Bridge, built 1793
West Cambridge (neighborhood), Cambridge, Massachusetts This page was last edited on 12 June 2020, at 10:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The predecessor West Boston Bridge, circa 1864. before the Longfellow Bridge. 1865 - Old Cambridge Mutual Relief Society organized. [17] 1866 Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and New Church Theological School [1] founded. Cambridge Press newspaper begins publication. [27] [35] 1867 - Episcopal Theological School founded. [1]
Cambridge (/ ˈ k eɪ m b r ɪ dʒ / [4] KAYM-brij) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located directly across the Charles River from Boston.
The Gray Gardens East and West Historic District is a historic district encompassing an early 20th century residential subdivision in Cambridge, Massachusetts.The subdivision includes all of the properties on Gray Gardens (East and West), as well as the adjacent 91 Garden Street and 60 Raymond Street.
Known as the Cambridge Bridge Farm, it remained unsettled until 1770, when John Adams of Menotomy (West Cambridge Parish) became the first settler with his new bride, Joanna Munroe. He was soon followed by other family members, including his father, Thomas Adams, Sr., a brother, Thomas Adams, Jr., a sister, Lucretia Adams Wetherbee, and a ...