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Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Somerville was established as a town in 1842, when it was separated from Charlestown.
Somerville includes: Spring Hill, Winter Hill, Bleachery, Brickbottom, Central Hill, Clarendon Hills, and Prospect Hill.
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History, News and Stories of Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

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1630 - Somerville is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1842 - Somerville is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1845 - SOMERVILLE. [Pop.1,500. Inc. 1842.]
This new town, lately set off from Charlestown, was the agricultural part of the township.
Somerville lies on the western bank of Mystic... Read MORE...
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1854 - Somerville
Somerville, a post-township of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, intersected by three important railroads, about 3 miles N. N. W. from Boston. It is... Read MORE...
1870 - Death by Falling into a Kettle of Boiling Fat
BOSTON, Oct. 11. - In Somerville, last evening, H. C. LINCOLN, of the firm of LINCOLN & CHAMBERLAIN, lard manufacturers, fell into a large kettle of... Read MORE...
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1872 - Somerville is incorporated as a city
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1877 - April 15 - 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass
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Somerville Massachusetts, 1890
SOMERVILLE is a beautiful, prosperous and growing city in the southeast section of Middlesex County, three miles northwest of Boston. Through it run... Read MORE...
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1906
Somerville, a city of Middlesex co., Mass., a suburb of the city of Boston, on the Mystio River and on the Bos ton and Albany and the Boston and... Read MORE...
1910 - FIREMAN KILLED IN WRECK.
Passenger in Collision Near Boston.
BOSTON, Dec. 25. - One death resulted to-night from a Christmas morning railroad wreck in the Somerville yard... Read MORE...
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1917 - Archibald Query invented marshmallow Fluff in 1917 in Somerville
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