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Encyclopedia > East Cambridge, Massachusetts

East Cambridge is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Referred to as Area 1, East Cambridge is bounded by the Charles River on the East, the McGrath-O'Brien Highway on the North, Binney Street on the South, and the railroad tracks on the West. "East Cambridge Begins at The Tracks" was a controversial slogan in the early 20th Century which challenged neighborhood honor between the residents of East Cambridge (Area 1) and Wellington-Harrington (Area 3). Cambridge City Hall Settled: 1630 â€“ Incorporated: 1636 Zip Code(s): 02139 â€“ Area Code(s): 617 / 857 Official website: http://www. ... The Charles River from the Boston side, facing Cambridge and the main campus of Harvard University. ...


During the late 1990s and early 2000s, East Cambridge and its neighbor Lechmere Square have been undergoing a gentrification process, as old factories are converted into condominiums and office space. Lechmere Square (pronounced leech-meer) is located at the intersection of Cambridge St. ...


Dorothea Lynde Dix became an advocate for the humane treatment of the mentally insane in the Antebellum Era when she volunteered as a Sunday School teacher at East Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dorothea Dix Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802–July 17, 1887) (not to be confused with the journalist Dorothy Dix) was a tireless social activist who, from the early 1840s to well after the American Civil War, drew on the most advanced 19th century ideas about psychiatric treatment to... Antebellum is a Latin word meaning before the war (ante means before and bellum war). ...


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Cambridge Massachusetts, 1890 (2056 words)
East Cambridge is connected with Charlestown by Prison Point Bridge, and with Boston by Canal or Craigie's Bridge and the viaduct of the Boston and Lowell Railroad.
The principal thoroughfares are Main Street, Harvard Street, Broadway, radiating from West Boston Bridge through Cambridgeport; and Cambridge Street from Craigie's (or Canal) Bridge, through East Cambridge, to Harvard Square in Old Cambridge; North Avenue extending thence to North Cambridge; Concord Avenue, to Belmont; and Brattle and Mount Auburn streets, to Mount Auburn and Watertown.
On the same grounds, east of these stately buildings, are the residences of the president and some of the professors, surrounded by shrubbery and embowered in ancient trees.
CoolTown Forums -> Cambridge, Massachusetts (1322 words)
Mid-1600s to mid-1700s - Cambridge was a quiet New England farming village clustered near the Common and the College.
Cambridge makes 5% of its pension funds available to be managed by a private venture capital firm, offers small issue tax exempt industrial revenue bonds, provides gap financing for the "fit out" of specialized laboratory space, and seeks to continually develop new products and services to meet emerging needs.
The Cambridge Business Development Center, a not-for-profit organization founded by the city, supports entrepreneurship by providing mentored support groups for CEO's of high growth firms as well as other services to meet their individual needs.
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