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First Settlement

Middlesex County · dedicated 1930 · Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge · location approximate

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Site of first settlement of Watertown in 1630. Here at the first meetinghouse the Reverend George Phillips protested against taxation without representation in 1632, which resulted in the people participating in the law-making power.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.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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