Cambridge
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- Names
Cambridge
Old Cambridge
New Town
Mishawum
New Towne
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Charles River; famed for 17th-century universities and religious congregations; first Massachusetts Constitutional Convention met here 1779-1780; famous natives include authors Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and religious leader Mary Baker Eddy.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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