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Middlesex County · dedicated 1930 · Massachusetts Avenue and Dunster Street, Cambridge · location approximate

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Two blocks south stood the house built in 1631 by Governor Thomas Dudley and later occupied by Herbert Pelham, first treasurer of Harvard College. At the corner of Dunster and Mount Auburn Streets stood the first meetinghouse, where Thomas Hooker and Thomas Shepard preached.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

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