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Contributor(s): Mitchell Sammarco, Anthony (Author)
ISBN: 0738557587     ISBN-13: 9780738557588
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
OUR PRICE:   $22.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 1999
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt)
- Travel | United States - Northeast - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt)
- History | Social History
Dewey: 974
Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6.52" W x 9.18" (0.71 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts
 
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Publisher Description:

Uncover the history of Cambridge, Massachusetts through vintage images in this pictorial history.


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 Cambridge saw tremendous development, with industrial concerns in Cambridgeport. New residents swelled Cambridge's population so much that it became a city in 1846. These changes, which included horse-drawn streetcars and, later, the Elevated Railway that is today known as the Red Line, made Cambridge a place of convenient residence. With the large-scale development in the late nineteenth century, Cambridge became a thriving nexus of cultural diversity.


Contributor Bio(s): Mitchell Sammarco, Anthony: - A local historian and author of more than 25 books in the Arcadia series, Anthony Mitchell Sammarco has compiled a fascinating visual history of Cambridge that is sure to be of interest to both historian and resident alike.