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From Swampy Wilderness to Small College Town to Noisy Industrial City to Today.

What Next?

Thomas Graves builds East Cambridge home.

1629

Gov. John Winthrop settles on Cambridge as a good place for the colonial government.

1630

Gov. John Winthrop changes his mind.

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1631

State appropriates money for the construction of a college in Newtowne,

1636

Anne Hutchinson tried for sedition, banished.

1637

Village grants College 2 2/3 acres of choice land. John Harvard bequeaths half his fortune, his library and his name to the same institution. The first printing press in the colonies arrives.

1638

Andrew Belcher opens the Blue Anchor Tavern.

1671

Smallpox breaks out.

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