This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Cambridge Tercentenary Reflections on Newtown to Cambridge
The article recounts Cambridge's origins as Newtown in 1620, the Puritan settlement led by Winthrop and Shepard, and the evolution from a small inland town to a major industrial city by 1930. It notes Harvard College founding, early governance, bridges, and shifting boundaries with Newton Arlington and Brighton, ending with Cambridge’s 1930 status as a leading Massachusetts manufacturer town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Newtown
John Winthrop
Watertown
Medford
England
Boston
Winthrop
Dudley
John Harvard
Harvard Square
Jarvis Field
Ash Bheel
Mystic Pond
Squaw
Thomas Dudley
Charlestown
Hoston
New England
Cambridge Common
Old College Wharf
Memorial Drive
New World
Lars Anderson
East Cambridge
West Boston
Longfellow
General Court of
Massachusetts
Thomas Hooker
Connecticut River
Hartford
Hooker
Thomas Shepard
Anne Hutchingson
Colony
Atr. Shepard
Shepard Memorial Church
Harvard College
General Court
Harvard
John U Harvard
Franklyn
U.S.A
Mexico
Stephen Day
Brighton
Newton
Arlington
Lexington
Bedford
Hillerica
Cambridge Village
New Cambridge
Cambridge Farms
Concord
West Cambridge
Little Cambridge
Boxton
Altho
College Town
Radcliffe
United States