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    • Conduct Research
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    Curious?
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    • History Hubs
    • Articles
    • History Hive
    • Self-Guided Tours
    • Oral Histories
    • Works In Progress
  • What’s On?
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    • Events
    • News
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    • Neighborhood History Centers
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History Cambridge Self-Guided Tours

Download a guide map, grab a friend, and hit the town or explore from home. Cambridge is yours to discover with self-guided tours on topics like modern architecture, candy-making history, Caribbean heritage, and feminist activism.

Cambridge and the American Revolution

Cambridge and the American Revolution

Innovation in Cambridge. Left side is black and white photo of person working at a brick factory. On right is person seated in a lab coat with rubber gloves.

Innovation in Cambridge

Laundresses at a Revolutionary Army camp, circa 1780.

Self-Guided Tour: The Work of Revolution in Cambridge

Self-Guided Tour: Gold Star Memorials in North Cambridge

Yellow rectangle with women's symbol collaborative and words Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women

Self-Guided Tours: Mapping Feminist Cambridge

Cambridge Trivia Hunt

1986 Neighborhood Trivia Hunt

Black and white photo of a three story house with tree in front

Self-Guided Tour: Stories from the Early African American Community of Old Cambridge

Self-Guided Tour: Women Activists of Riverside 50 Years After Suffrage

Blue-tinted image looking down on a sculpture with five points

Self-Guided Tour: Monuments and Memorials in Cambridge

Self-Guided Tour: The History of Candy Making in Cambridge

Self-Guided Tour: Loyalist Women of Cambridge

Self-Guided Tour: Lois Lilley Howe Homes of Gray Gardens

Self-Guided Tour: Central Square Activism From the 1960s to Now

Guided Tour

Self-Guided Tour: Cambridge and the American Revolution

Self-Guided Bike Tour: Pedaling the People’s Republic, A History of Political Activism in Cambridge

Self-Guided Tour: Huron Village’s Modern Houses

Marian Darlington-Hope & Joe Galusha conducting a guided walking tour of the Port

Self-Guided Tour: Caribbean Community in the Port

Black and white photo of a person bent over many rows of bricks outside. Stacked bricks are seen on the right.

Self-Guided Tour: Clay, Bricks, Dump, Park: A Tour of North Cambridge

Cambridge Historical Society: Cambridge Through the Pages tour map

Cambridge Through the Pages

Self-Guided Tour: William James’s Cambridge

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