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1884 map of Somerville demarcating each of the wards within the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, Somerville has a total area of 4.2 square miles (11 km 2), of which 4.1 square miles (11 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2), or 2.61%, is water. [60]
The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [1] This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted October 25, 2024. [2]
Topographical map showing contour of Spring Hill. Spring Hill was first developed in 1843 by George O. Brastow, an influential businessman who later became the first mayor of Somerville. He lotted one of Somerville's first residential subdivisions on the hill's south side between Central and Belmont Streets. Several original houses from this ...
Winter Hill is a neighborhood in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. It takes its name from the 120-foot hill that occupies its landscape, the name of which dates back to the 18th century. [1] Winter Hill is located roughly north of Medford Street, west of McGrath Highway, and east of Magoun Square.
The Spring Hill Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Summer, Central, Atherton, and Spring Streets in the Spring Hill area of Somerville, Massachusetts. The district encompasses the city's best-preserved residential subdivision from the mid-19th century, with later infill construction in the late 19th and early 20th ...
Map showing the Ten Hills neighborhood shaded in violet. Ten Hills is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of the city of Somerville, Massachusetts.The area is roughly wedge-shaped, about 50 acres (200,000 m 2) in size, and is bounded by the Mystic River to the north, McGrath Highway to the east, and is largely separated from the rest of Somerville by Interstate 93 to the southwest. [1]
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
The city of Somerville was first settled in 1630 and was part of Charlestown until 1842. From an early date, a track developed that skirted Prospect Hill to the north and a marshy area to the south, between the center of Charlestown and Menotomy, as what is now Arlington was then called. This route now consists of Washington Street, Bow Street ...