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History of Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

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Where is Somerville, Massachusetts, USA?

• 1630 - Somerville is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1842 - Somerville is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 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...
  
  
  
• 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...
  
  
  
• 1872 - Somerville is incorporated as a city
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 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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  Prospect Hill Tower, Somerville, Mass.
  
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  Gilman Square
  
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  Highland Ave. and Medford St.
  
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  Somerville Highlands Station
  
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  Somerville, Mass. City Hall.
  
• 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...
  
  
  
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  Charles Pope School
  
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  Old Tufts House, Sycamore St., 1908
  
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  Old Powder House, 1909
  
•  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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  The Armory
  
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  Broadway Park, looking across the Pond
  
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  Central Park
  
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  Citadel
  
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  Engine House, Union Sq.
  
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  Somerville Hospital
  
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  High School
  
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  Winter Hill Station
  
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  Y.M.C.A.
  
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  Robinson Round House
  
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  West Somerville, Mass. Elm Street and Davis Square, 1911
  
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  Fort Park
  
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  Library
  
• 1917 - Archibald Query invented marshmallow Fluff in 1917 in Somerville
  
  
  
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  Bean's Pharmacy
  
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  Edgerly School
  
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  Congregational Church, College Avenue, West Somerville, Mass.
  
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  St. Catherine's Church
  
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  Woodbridge Hotel, West Somerville, Mass. Mr. Frank E. W. Howe, Mgr.