First Church in Cambridge Patent

Site of first church in Cambridge Patent

Building started 1775 interrupted by Revolution

Completed 1783

Marker is on South Union Street just from County Route 71, on the right when traveling south.

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Spirit of 1775 Beeline March to Cambridge

On 11 June 1775, the Second Continental Congress authorized the raising of ten companies of riflemen in

Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to aid General George Washington at the British siege of Boston. The Berkeley

County Committee of Safety selected Captain ...

Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial

The Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial site in England, 30.5 acres in total, was donated by the University of Cambridge. It lies on a slope with the west and south sides framed by woodland. The cemetery contains the remains of ...

Cambridge

1630 - 1930

Location chosen in 1630 to be the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Settled in 1631 under leadership of Thomas Dudley and called the New Town. The College ordered to be here, 1637. Name changed to Cambridge after ...

Cambridge Farms

In 1642, 11 men were proprietors of land grants in Lexington, using their land here for farming or holding it for speculation while living in Cambridge. By 1682, about 30 families lived in Lexington, then known as Cambridge Farms. Disliking ...

Christ Church- Cambridge

Oldest church building

in Cambridge.

Built in 1760

occupied by

Continental troops

in 1775.

Marker is on Garden Street north of Mason Street, on the left when traveling north.

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New Cambridge (now Bristol)

New Cambridge (now Bristol)

Was Settled 1727 – 8

Since Early Days

The Federal Hill Green

Has Been Used As A

Training Ground For Soldiers And A

Playground For Children

This Boulder Was Placed

By Katherine Gaylord Chapter

Daughters of The American Revolution

1934

Marker is at the intersection of Bellevue ...

Oldest House in Cambridge

1630 – 1930

At Number 21 Linnaean Street is the Cooper-Austin House built in 1657 at what was then the northern end of the Cambridge Cow Common, by John Cooper, selectman, town clerk, and deacon of the church.

Marker is at the ...

Cambridge

Originally part of the Choptank Indian Reservation laid out for them in 1669. Cambridge was made a port of entry by the Assembly in 1684. It is one of the few towns authorized at that early date that has survived.

Cambridge Springs

Between 1884 and 1915, this was a major health resort, founded upon the various mineral springs here. Dr. John H. Gray, who had discovered spring water on his farm, began prescribing and marketing it in 1884. By the early 1900s, ...