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Timeline Of Cambridge, Massachusetts
This is a timeline of the Cambridge, Massachusetts#History, history of the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. 17th century * 1630 - English settlers arrive. Site selected by John Winthrop the Younger. * 1632 - The First Parish in Cambridge, First Parish meeting house built. * 1636 - History of Harvard University, The "New College" founded. * 1636 - Newe Towne was established as a town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony on September 8. * 1638 ** ''Newe Towne'' renamed "Cambridge." ** John Harvard (clergyman), John Harvard, a Puritan minister, bequeaths his library and half his monetary estate to the college. * 1639 ** New College renamed Harvard College for benefactor John Harvard. ** First printing press in Cambridge. * 1640 - ''Bay Psalm Book'' printed. * 1642 - Harvard holds its first commencement. * 1662 - Great Bridge (Cambridge), Great Bridge built. * 1663 - Algonquin-language ''Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God'' published. * 1682 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, and Springfield. It is one of two de jure county seats of Middlesex County, although the county's executive government was abolished in 1997. Situated directly north of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, once also an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lesley University, and Hult International Business School are in Cambridge, as was Radcliffe College before it merged with Harvard. Kendall Square in Cambridge has been called "the most innovative square mile on the planet" owing to the high concentration of successful startups that have emerged in the vicinity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts Hall (Harvard University)
Massachusetts Hall is the oldest surviving building at Harvard College, the first institution of higher learning in the British colonies in America, and second oldest academic building in the United States after the Wren Building at the College of William & Mary. As such, it possesses great significance not only in the history of American education but also in the story of the developing English Colonies of the 18th century. Massachusetts Hall was designed by Harvard Presidents John Leverett and his successor Benjamin Wadsworth. It was erected between 1718 and 1720 in Harvard Yard. It was originally a dormitory containing 32 chambers and 64 small private studies for the 64 students it was designed to house. During the siege of Boston, 640 American soldiers took quarters in the hall. Much of the interior woodwork and hardware, including brass doorknobs, disappeared at this time. While designed as a residence for students, the building has served many purposes through the years. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hilliard (publisher)
William Hilliard (1778–1836) was a publisher and bookseller in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the early 19th-century. He worked with several business partners through the years, including Jacob Abbot Cummings, James Brown, and Charles C. Little. President Thomas Jefferson selected his firm to supply approximately 7,000 volumes on numerous topics in 1825-1826, to create the University of Virginia Library. Biography Hilliard married, and he and his wife had the following children: Foster (1814-1817), James Winthrop (1816-1817), and Francis Hilliard (ca.1808-1878) Bookselling and publishing Hilliard's several bookselling and publishing firms in Boston and Cambridge included: * Cummings & Hilliard (1812-1820), Boston; with Jacob Abbot Cummings * Hilliard and Metcalf (ca.1817-1824), Cambridge; with Eliab Wight Metcalf * Cummings, Hilliard & Co. (ca.1820-1825), Boston; with Timothy H. Carter * Hilliard, Gray & Co. (1827), with Harrison Gray * Hilliard, Gray, Little and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longwood Medical And Academic Area
The Longwood Medical and Academic Area (also known as Longwood Medical Area, LMA, or simply Longwood) is a medical campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Flanking Longwood Avenue, LMA is adjacent to the Fenway–Kenmore, Audubon Circle, and Mission Hill neighborhoods, as well as the town of Brookline. It is most strongly associated with Harvard Medical School, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and other medical facilities such as Harvard's teaching hospitals, but prominent non-Harvard institutions are located there as well. Long known as a global center of research, institutions in the Longwood Medical Area secured over $1.2 billion in NIH funds alone, in FY 2018 which exceeds funding received by 44 states. Hospitals and research institutions * Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center * Boston Children's Hospital * Brigham and Women's Hospital * Dana–Farber Cancer Institute * Joslin Diabetes Center * Massachusetts Mental Health Cente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresh Pond Hotel
The Fresh Pond Hotel is an historic former hotel at 234 Lakeview Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. History The three story wood-frame hotel was built in 1796 by Jacob Wyeth. Jacob was a graduate of Harvard, Class of 1792, and on 20 Sept 1796 he bought from his father, bordering on Fresh Pond, and erected the "Fresh Pond Hotel", which was a popular resort. He managed the hotel until he accumulated a large estate and retired from active business, and leased the hotel to his nephew, Jonas Wyeth, who also retired with a satisfactory fortune, about 1840. Jacob Wyeth resided on the estate until 14 Jan 1857, when he died at nearly 93 years of age. The building, originally in the Federal style, was updated to the Greek Revival style in 1838, and converted into a convent in 1886. In 1892 the hotel was moved from its original location at Fresh Pond to 234 Lakeview Avenue. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. See also *National Register of His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Boston Bridge
The Longfellow Bridge is a steel rib arch bridge spanning the Charles River to connect Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood with the Kendall Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The bridge carries Massachusetts Route 3, US Route 3, the MBTA Red Line, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic. The structure was originally known as the Cambridge Bridge, and a predecessor structure was known as the West Boston Bridge; Boston also continued to use "West Boston Bridge" officially for the new bridge. The bridge is also known to locals as the "Salt-and-Pepper Bridge" due to the shape of its central towers. The bridge falls under the jurisdiction and oversight of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). The bridge carries approximately 28,600 cars and 90,000 mass-transit passengers every weekday. A portion of the MBTA subway's elevated Charles/MGH station lies at the eastern end of the bridge, which connects to Charles Circle. Design Longfellow Bridge is a combination railw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consistently ranked first for research among medical schools by '' U.S. News & World Report''. Unlike most other leading medical schools, HMS does not operate in conjunction with a single hospital but is directly affiliated with several teaching hospitals in the Boston area. Affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes include Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, McLean Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, The Baker Center for Children and Families, and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. History Harvard Medical School was founded on September 19, 1782, after President Joseph Willard presented a report with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New England's Dark Day
New England's Dark Day occurred on May 19, 1780, when an unusual darkening of the daytime sky was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada. The primary cause of the event is believed to have been a combination of smoke from forest fires, a thick fog, and cloud cover. The darkness was so complete that candles were required from noon on. It did not disperse until the middle of the next night. Range of the darkness According to Professor Samuel Williams of Harvard College, the darkness was seen at least as far north as Portland, Maine, and extended southwards to New Jersey. The darkness was not witnessed in Pennsylvania. Revolutionary War soldier Joseph Plumb Martin noted: We were here ew Jerseyat the time the "dark day" happened, (19th of May;) it has been said that the darkness was not so great in New-Jersey as in New-England. How great it was there I do not know, but I know that it was very dark where I then was in New-Jersey; so much so that the fowls went to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watson's Corner
Watson's Corner is the historical name for an intersection in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the corner of Rindge Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue. It was part of a wider area called Watson's Plain in colonial and Revolutionary War times and well into the 19th century.''Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: Northwest Cambridge'', 1977, , Cambridge Historical Commission, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 14-16, 39 Watson's Corner gained notability on account of a skirmish that occurred there on April 19, 1775 in connection with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. A marker at 2154 Massachusetts Avenue commemorates the skirmish. An account of this event from the Cambridge city website describes the scene thus:An obvious typo has been corrected. :At Watson’s Corner (the present intersection of Rindge and Massachusetts avenues) Cambridge patriot A patriot is a person with the quality of patriotism. Patriot may also refer to: Political and military groups United States * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battles Of Lexington And Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America. In late 1774, Colonial leaders adopted the Suffolk Resolves in resistance to the alterations made to the Massachusetts colonial government by the British parliament following the Boston Tea Party. The colonial assembly responded by forming a Patriot provisional government known as the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and calling for local militias to train for possible hostilities. The Colonial government effectively controlled the colony outside of British-controlled Boston. In response, the British government in February 1775 declared Massachusetts to be in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dawes
William Dawes Jr. (April 6, 1745 – February 25, 1799) was one of several men who in April 1775 alerted colonial minutemen in Massachusetts of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the outset of the American Revolution. For some years, Paul Revere had the most renown for his ride of warning of this event. Childhood Dawes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 6, 1745, to William and Lydia Dawes (née Boone), and baptized at Boston's Old South Church. He became a tanner and was active in Boston's militia. On May 3, 1768, Dawes married Mehitable May, the daughter of Samuel and Catherine May (née Mears). The ''Boston Gazette'' noted that for his wedding, he wore a suit entirely made in North America. At the time, Whigs were trying to organize a boycott of British products in order to pressure Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts. Role in Boston's militia On April 8, 1768, Dawes was elected as a member of the Ancien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmwood (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Elmwood, also known as the Oliver-Gerry-Lowell House,Wilson, p. 112 is a historic house and centerpiece of a National Historic Landmark District in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is known for several prominent former residents, including: Thomas Oliver (1734–1815), royal Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; Elbridge Gerry (1744–1814), signer of the US Declaration of Independence, Vice President of the United States and eponym of the term "gerrymandering"; and James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), noted American writer, poet, and foreign diplomat. The house, originally on a 100-acre estate, was built in the Georgian style about 1767 by John Nutting for Lt. Governor Thomas Oliver, member of a wealthy merchant family in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Abandoned by the Loyalist Oliver at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, the property was confiscated by the state of Massachusetts. It was purchased by Elbridge Gerry, who used it as his family residence until his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
