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Way to Charlestown

Middlesex County · dedicated 1930 · Cambridge Common, Massachusetts Avenue · location approximate

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Washington Street, Somerville, and Kirkland and Brattle Streets, Cambridge, "skirting marshes and river" follow the old Indian trail from Charlestown to Watertown. Along this way in 1636 went the Reverend Thomas Hooker and his congregation on their exodus from Cambridge to Hartford in Connecticut.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.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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