Somerville
Details
- Names
Somerville
Cow Commons
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Mystic river; area was entirely fenced-in until 1865; expanded with arrival of Middlesex Canal 1802 & Boston & Lowell railroad 1835; population grew with development of meat-packing industry after 1900; noted for Old Powder House (ca. 1702).
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994);
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