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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 65. Chapters: Charles River, Harvard Square, Neighborhoods in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Newton, Massachusetts, Watertown, Massachusetts, Brattle Street (Cambridge, Massachusetts), List of crossings of the Charles River, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Inman Square, Charles River Reservation, Alewife Brook Reservation, Head of the Charles Regatta, Porter Square, List of Charles River boathouses, Tasty Sandwich Shop, Kendall Square, Central Square, Tory Row, Norumbega Park, Anderson Memorial Bridge, Charles River Natural Valley Storage Area, Fresh Pond (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Upper Charles River Reservation, Area 4, Cambridge, Mother Brook, Charles River Dam, Hemlock Gorge Reservation, Echo Bridge, Charles River Bike Path, Charles River Reservation Parkways, Cutler Park, Handlin, Garrahan, Zachos & Associates, Watertown Dam, Lumen Eclipse, Alewife Linear Park, North Point Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts), NorthPoint (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Out of Town News, Cambridge Railroad, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society, North Cambridge, Massachusetts, Grendel's Den, Old Cambridge Historic District, Cambridge Common, Cambridge Common Historic District, Cambridgeport, Hubbard Park Historic District, Harvard Houses Historic District, Harvard Street Historic District, Harvard Square Subway Kiosk, Gray Gardens East and West Historic District, Great Bridge, Blake and Knowles Steam Pump Company National Register District, East Cambridge Historic District, Norfolk Street Historic District, Memorial Drive Apartments Historic District, Follen Street Historic District, Hastings Square Historic District, Winter Street Historic District, Shady Hill Historic District, Garfield Street Historic District, Upper Magazine Street Historic District, Ash Street Historic District, Kirkland Place Historic District, Berkeley Street Historic District, Maple Avenue Historic District (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Salem-Auburn Streets Historic District, Bigelow Street Historic District, Old Cambridgport Historic District, Avon Hill Historic District, Watson's Corner, Mid-Cambridge, West Cambridge, Cambridge Center, Peabody, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Agassiz, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Campus, Cambridge, Strawberry Hill, Cambridge, Cambridge Highlands, Wellington-Harrington, Riverside, Cambridge. Excerpt: Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, a nexus of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two internationally prominent universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 105,162. It is the fifth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Lowell. Cambridge is one of the two county seats of Middlesex County (Lowell is the other). A resident of Cambridge is known as a Cantabrigian. The site for what would become Cambridge was chosen in December 1630, because it was located safely up river from Boston Harbor, which made it easily defensible from attacks by enemy ships. Also, the water from the local spring was so good that the local Natives believed it had medicinal properties. The first houses were built in the spring of 1631. The settlement was initially referred to as "the newe towne". Officia...