Identifier: historicguidetoc02mass (find matches)
Title: An historic guide to Cambridge
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution. Hannah Winthrop chapter, Cambridge
Subjects: Cambridge (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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is in the college library. Further north,stood Old College House, a three-story wooden building with brick ends, occu-pied as a dormitory by the students. Burgoynes troops were quartered in it. Near by was the apothecary shop of Osgood and Farrington, which is men-tioned in a recently published letter, written before the Revolution by NathanielWalker Appleton, the son of the minister, as being very flash. Near the corner of Church street were three old houses. One was the houseof Deacon Kidder; the last to go was a little old black house, whose front wascovered with white roses, described in Lowells Cambridge Thirty TearsAgo, as the barber-shop of Marcus Reemy, that strange foreigner, still re-membered by a few now living as having given them sticks of candy when aschildren they were taken there by their parents to have their hair cut. Behindwas the house occupied by Miss Dana, who taught the little girls to sew. For more than two centuries. Harvard square has been the true centre of
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HISTORIC GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE 9 Cambridge. Uutil the middle of tiie uiueteeuth century it was commonly calledThe Village. From it still diverge the roads to Boston, Charlestowu, Brighton,Watertown and Arlington, with Lexington and Concord just beyond. Here isthe college yard, and here, in the early history of the town, were found thetown house, as the court house was called, the meeting house and the buryingground. Here, too, were placed the town pump and scales, and in the centreof the square was built, early in the nineteenth century, the market house, thelower part of which was occupied by the twin-brothers, Snow, as a fish market,also delightfully described by James Russell Lowell in Cambridge Thirty YearsAgo. Great elm trees lined either side of the road until the rush of travelnecessitated their removal. In 1830 the market house was removed as an encroachment on public lands,and it was soon followed by the disappearance of the meeting house, the townhouse, the old houses in the co

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