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

What Next?

1721

Harvard Hall burns down, destroying John Harvard's library--save one book.

1764

The Revolutionary War Cambridge approves, participates.

1775

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Massachusetts constitutional convention meets at Cambridge meeting house.

1779

Andrew Craigie builds Canal Bridge in East Cambridge.

1807

Coeducation begins in Cambridge public schools.

1845

City charter adopted.

1846

Railroad line opens through the city.

1850

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