Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area as a major suburb of Boston.
- Cambridge, MassachusettsWatertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston.
- Watertown, MassachusettsIt is included in the Census Bureau's Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
- Middlesex County, MassachusettsThe county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered that "the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four shires." Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, and Reading.
- Middlesex County, MassachusettsThe first buildings were upon land now included within the limits of Cambridge known as Gerry's Landing.
- Watertown, MassachusettsLocated at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newtowne was one of several towns (including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under Governor John Winthrop.
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Waltham, Massachusetts
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Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution.
Waltham was first settled in 1634 as part of Watertown and was officially incorporated as a separate town in 1738.
1755 – Part of Cambridge annexed to Waltham.
Weston, Massachusetts
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Weston is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts United States, about 15 miles west of downtown Boston.
Weston was originally part of the Watertown settlement of 1630, but until the end of the century, the land was used mainly for grazing cattle.
However, as of December 2019, only 10 inbound trips depart from the Cedarwood bus stop on weekdays—all during rush hour periods—with no weekend service. Bus Route 70 travels from Cedarwood to Central Square in Cambridge to connect with the MBTA Red Line.
Newton, Massachusetts
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Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Newton was settled in 1630 as part of "the newe towne", which was renamed Cambridge in 1638.
The city is bordered by Waltham and Watertown on the north, Needham and the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston on the south, Wellesley and Weston on the west, and Brookline and the Brighton neighborhood of Boston on the east.
Greater Boston
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Metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston and its surrounding areas.
Harvard University in Cambridge is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, with the largest financial endowment of any university, and whose Law School has spawned a contemporaneous majority of United States Supreme Court Justices.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Athenahealth, in Watertown, Massachusetts (headquarters)
Lincoln, Massachusetts
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Lincoln is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Because the new town was composed of parts "nipped" off from the adjacent towns of Concord, Weston (which itself had been part of Watertown) and Lexington (which itself had been part of Cambridge), it was sometimes referred to as "Niptown."
Belmont, Massachusetts
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Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Belmont was established on March 10, 1849, by former citizens of, and land from the bordering towns of Watertown, to the south; Waltham, to the west; and Arlington, then known as West Cambridge, to the north.
Belmont is bordered by Cambridge on the east, Arlington on the north, Lexington on the northwest, Waltham on the west, and Watertown on the south.