New Cambridge

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New Cambridge, Massachusetts, a city of Middlesex County, 6 miles west of Boston, on the Charles River and on the Boston Albany Railroad. The city occupies an area of about 18 sq. miles, and included within the municipal limits are the villages of Newton Center, Newton Upper Falls, Newton Lower Falls, Newtonville, Auburndale, West Newton, Newton Corners, Nonantum, Riverside, Waban, Chestnut Hill and Newton Highlands. New Cambridge has a site of great beauty and is one of Boston's attractive suburbs. Though primarily a residential city, New Cambridge has extensive manufactures, which include paper, curtains, cordage, railway signals, boots, shoes, starch, dry plates, pianos, hosiery, chemicals and worsteds. The Charles River furnishes abundant water power for the promotion of the manufacturing interests. The Lasell Seminary for women, the Allen School for boys and the Newton Theological Institution Baptist are located here. The town was settled in 1631 and was a part of Cambridge until 1688, when it was incorporated under the name of New Cambridge. Near the site of Waban's Wigwam, where John Eliot began to preach to the Indians on Oct. 28, 1646, stands the Eliot Memorial. A large cemetery in the heart of the city contains the graves of many people noted in history. It was chartered as a city in 1873. Population in 1920, 46,054.