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Title: The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. A picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Gilman, Arthur, 1837-1909
Subjects: Cambridge (Mass.) Cambridge (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: Cambridge, Riverside press
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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red to the families of theirformer owners. The town was opposed to such returns, and,May 5, 1783, instructed its representative to vote against them. In October, 1777, Burgoynes troops were temporarily quar-tered in this town and vicinity. A part remained until thesucceeding November. Burgoyne himself had quarters assignedhim in the Borland House, on the easterly side of DunsterStreet, about midway between Mount Auburn and Harvardstreets. General Reidesel was quartered in the Sewall House,sometimes called the Lechmere House from a former owner. Apart of this house still stands at the western corner of ReideselAvenue and Brattle Street. It was while her husband wasquartered there that Madame Reidesel gained the -knowledgethat enabled her to describe, in her letters, life in Tory Row before the war began. Never have I chanced, she says, uponsuch an agreeable situation. We have now reached the period indicated at the beginningof this sketch as the point in the history of the town where a
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Craigie Street. BRIDGES AND ROADS. 29 marked change in its career began. Down to this time therehad been little or no fluctuation in the population. The numberof inhabitants in 1776 was said to have been only 1586, and atthat time both Menotomy and the parish south of the Charleswere parts of the town. Cambridgeport and East Cambridgecould have been described in 1780, in conveyancers language,as woodlands, pastures, swamps, and salt marsh. The littlevillage practically ceased at Quincy Street, and eastward be-tween the mansion house of Judge Dana, on what is now calledDana Street, and Boston and Charlestown, there were in 1793,according to Rev. Dr. Holmes, but four dwelling-houses. Onthe 23d of November of that year, the West Boston Bridge wasopened for public travel. Then began the growth which soontransferred the centre of population east of the college. Theconstruction of the Craigie Bridge in 1809 largely contributedto this result also. Both of these bridges were originally pri-va

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