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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
ge yard was taken the land between the Charlestown highway (Kirkland Street) and Braintree Street, the name of which was changed to Harvard Street. A fence and gate between the college yard and the graveyard, near the site of the present flagstaff, served to keep out of the village the cattle that grazed on the Common. Across Harvard Street (near Linden) was the east gate of the town; and where the palisade crossed the Watertown highway (Brattle Street) at Ash Street was the west gate. In 1639, the first printing-press in America north of the city of Mexico was set up by Stephen Daye, at the west corner of Dunster Street and Harvard Square. Among its earliest productions were Peirce's New England Almanack, and the Bay Psalm Book, and there was afterward printed that monument of labor, Eliot's Indian Bible. The complaints of insufficient land led to extensive grants of territory, until from 1644 to 1655 Cambridge attained enormous dimensions, including the whole areas of Brighton
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge Journalism (search)
ces and find out means of redress, with its answer, was ordered to be printed by our selectmen, it appeared, July 27, 1786, in the Boston Independent Chronicle. There is a bare possibility, however, from the similarity of name, that our Cambridge Chronicle and Gazette had been moved into Boston as a broader field for journalistic enterprise. Be that as it may, it is a somewhat singular fact that Cambridge, where the first printing-press erected in New England was set up by Stephen Daye in 1639, should have arrived at the mature age of two hundred and sixteen years before she awoke to the necessity of maintaining a local newspaper. To the modern journalist who is familiar with the numberless interesting and dramatic episodes that are associated with the early history of Cambridge, the fact that we should have had no local newspaper to record these events properly seems an appalling waste of opportunity. Why, for instance, should it have been left to the Boston News Letter of S
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
oughton and Mr. Brown were desirous of giving the new press a significant name, and tried various experiments till Mr. Brown said one day: This press stands by the side of the Charles River; why not call it The Riverside Press? and this most natural name was then given it, so that now the term Riverside has come to cover a thickly populated district and to be applied to various neighboring industries. The University Press. The history of the University Press at Cambridge dates back to 1639, making it the oldest book-printing establishment in America. One of the earliest books issued by the Press while under the charge of Samuel Greene is still in existence, being cherished as a valued relic of the printer's art in the Massachusetts Historical Society. The volume is entitled The General Laws and Liberties of the Massachusetts Colony, revised and reprinted by order of the General Court holden in Boston, May 15, 1672, according to the printed statement of Edward Rawson, secretar