History of Arlington, Massachusetts, USA

West Cambridge [Arlington], Massachusetts
Middlesex county. This was a parish of Cambridge, called "Menotomy," until its incorporation in 1807. A part of the lands are low and swampy, but the general features of the town are pleasant. Spy, Little, and a part of Fresh ponds lie in this town; they abound with fish, and add much to the beauty of the place. These ponds cover an area of about 200 acres, and furnish large quantities of ice for transportation. In this town are some very pleasant villages, numerous country seats, and well cultivated farms. Large quantities of milk are daily taken to the Boston market, and this place is a considerable mart for cattle from the interior country.
Sucker brook, though a small stream, furnishes a good water power. The descent of this stream is so great, that dams are erected in the town for appropriating its water nine different times. The mechanical operations of West Cambridge consist of dying and printing calico, pulverizing drugs, medicines...

West Cambridge, a post-township of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, 6 miles N. W. from Boston. The principal village is on the Fitchburg railroad, from which diverges the Lexington and West Cambridge Branch railroad. It is built principally on one extended street, and contains 3 or 4 churches and several stores. Population in 1840, 1363; in 1850, 2202.

Arlington is a pleasant suburban town in the southeastern part of Middlesex County, five miles northwest of Boston,— to which it is easily accessible by street railroads and by the steam cars of the Boston and Lowell system. On the north of it is Winchester ; on the opposite side of the beautiful Mystic Pond of 232 acres is Medford, — which, with Somerville and Cambridge, forms a crescent boundary on the east ; while on the southwest is Belmont, and on the west, Lexington. Arlington and Arlington Heights are the post-offices, also villages and railway stations with Brattle Station and Lake Street.

Sienite is the principal underlying rock coming into view. The land is level in the southeastern part, but rises from the middle of the town northeast and southwest to an elevation of about 360 feet above sea-level, about which is the village of Arlington Heights (formerly Circle Hill). There are a pretty church, good public schools, and upwards of 80 dwellings, with several societies or...

Arlington, a post-village of Middlesex co., Mass., in Arlington township, on the Middlesex Central Railroad, 6 miles N.W. of Boston. It has 5 churches, a savings-bank, a newspaper office, and manufactures of pianos, picture frames, saws, &c. Pop. of the township in 1890, 5629.

Arlington, a banking post-village of Middlesex co., Mass., in Arlington township (town), on the Boston and Maine R., 6 miles NW. of Boston. It has various manufactures, etc. Pop. of the town in 1900, 8603. See Arlington Heights.