Cambridge

Settled as New Towne in 1631, Cambridge was referred to by Wood, a seventeenth-century chronicler, as “one of the neatest and best compacted towns in New England.” The founding of Harvard College in 1636 was to ensure the town’s notoriety, as it was the first college in the New World. Harvard gave
Cambridge a cosmopolitan flavor, but the town retained its open farmland and its well-known fisheries along the Charles and Alewife Rivers for nearly two centuries. By the early nineteenth century ...