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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 114 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 112 0 Browse Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 94 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 40 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 24 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 18 0 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905 18 0 Browse Search
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 12 0 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 10 0 Browse Search
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn 8 0 Browse Search
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nd Thomas Graves, who came over as engineer of the Charlestown colony the next year, wrote home that It is very beautiful in open lands mixed with goodly woods, and again open plaines, in some places five hundred acres, some places more, some lesse, not much troublesome for to cleere for the plough to goe in, no place barren but on the tops of the hills. He also says: The grass and weeds grow up to, a man's face in the lowlands. And the Rev. Mr. Higginson, writing of the settlements on Charles river, speaks of the abundance of grass that groweth everywhere, both very thick, very long, and very high in divers places. From these simple statements, it is not difficult to imagine the aspect of our city at that time. On the north, broad marshes extended along the Mystic river, from the Medford line to Charlestown Neck, the marsh grasses green and beautiful in their pristine freshness. On the south, Miller's river, or Willis creek, as it was first called, a broad inlet from the sea,
Road, The, 98. Campbell, Samuel, 71, 73. Canada, 81. Canal Bridge, The, 98. Canal Street, New Orleans, La., 54. Cape Colony, 81. Cape Fear River, 33, 34. Capen, Elmer Hewitt, 1-3. Capen, Rosamond Edwards, 1. Capen, Ruth Paul, 1. Capon, Samuel Paul, 1. Captain Carter's Draught, 85, Carlisle, Miss S., 73, 92, 93, Cary, Samuel, 84. Central Hill, Somerville, 7. Central Street, Somerville, 7. Chamberlain, John, 84. Chambre, Rev. A. St. John, 1. Chance, 84. Charles River, 4. Charlestown, Mass., 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 18, 19, 23, 38, 42, 43, 63, 64, 65, 66, 72, 73, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 85, 88, 89, 92. Charlestown Neck, 4. Charlestown Schools after 1793, 38-46. Charlestown Schools after 1812, 63-74. Charlestown Schools from 1819-20, 90-101. Charlestown Schools without the Peninsula, 14-22. Chapman, Jonathan, 41. Chapman, Richard, 41. Charter of William and Mary, 79. Chauncy, President, 79. Chelmsford, Mass., 87. Chelsea, Mass., 38, 77.