Civilizations & archaeology

Founding of Cambridge

1630

City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America. Its founding is dated to 1630 in what is now the United States. It was part of Massachusetts House of Representatives' 24th Middlesex district and Massachusetts House of Representatives' 25th Middlesex district. Its population today is about 118,400.

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