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Gerry’s Landing And Its Neighborhood

February 8, 2018

By Mrs. S. M. Gozzaldi Originally read on June 15th, 1918. This article can be found in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society Volume 13, from the year 1918. When we visit a city or country that is new to us, we try to find out what is of interest in the place, what famous…

The Downside of Progress

December 21, 2017

By Doug Brown, 2017 Cambridge has made a lot of things over the centuries, not all of them valuable. Our manufacturing history has its dirty, dangerous downside, and dealing with the hazards and by-products of production has always been a challenge in this jam-packed, 7.1-square-mile city. By the end of the 19th century, the technological…

Printing In Cambridge Since 1800

October 19, 2017

by Norman Hill White, Jr., 1920 This article can be found in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society Volume 15, from the years 1920-1921. From 1692, when Samuel Green retired as manager of the college press, there was no printing done in Cambridge for over a hundred years, except that done by the brothers…

Early Cambridge Newspapers

September 14, 2017

By George Grier Wright, 1928 This article can be found in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society Volume 20, from the years 1927-1929. In the fall of 1839 two school boys, Peter L. Cox, aged fifteen years, and his brother Henry S., aged twelve years, conceived the idea of publishing a weekly paper for…