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1 Cambridge Street Names Compiled by the Cambridge Historical Commission Updated June 30, 2009 This is an informal compilation of information on the origins of Cambridge street names. Additional streets will be listed as
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City

Philadelphia / Watertown / Lincoln / Arlington / Boston / Somerville / Hamilton / Sergeant / Cambridge / London / /

Company

John L. Sands / CHS / Joseph Cook / Little Brown & Co. / Linnaean Street / Sun / Street After Harvard / Bell Telephone Company / Arthur Woodbridge / Shady Hill / Kirkland Street After Harvard / Thomas Grace / KIA / Riverside Press / Harvard Chilton Street After Mary Chilton / 163 Brattle Street Arlington Street / Brookline / /

Continent

America / /

Country

France / United Kingdom / Germany / United States / /

Event

Person Travel / /

Facility

Building Lots / O’Brien Highway / Mount Vernon / stable of Frank A. Kennedy / Harvard University Museum / Harvard University / Bridge Street / Burns Court / Mount Auburn Cemetery / Mill Street After / Dike Street / Harvard College / /

IndustryTerm

real estate broker / real estate promoter / land developer / /

MusicGroup

Appleton / Blanche / Silent / Laurel / /

NaturalFeature

Coolidge Hill / Lake Erie / Peleliu Island / /

Organization

Yorktown Court / Supreme Judicial Court / Bowdoin Street Society / Cambridge Park Commission / Burns Court / Metropolitan District Commission / Gold Star Road Court / Cambridge Historical Commission / Harvard University / Harvard / Sacred Heart Church / Protestant Episcopal Church / Harvard College / Dinsmore Court / Episcopal Church / Veterans Department / /

Person

Oliver Goldsmith / Edward Holyoke / John Carver / John Howland / Orrin Sands / John Mellen / Edward J. Lopez / John Winthrop / John Perkins Cushing / Jane Hurlbut Clarke / Catherine Agnes Fitzpatrick / William Winthrop / Edwin Grozier / William Harrington / William Eustis / Francis H. Eliot / Dana II / George Phillips / Baroness von Riedesel / Helen / George Washington / Anne (Leonard) Fitzpatrick / Mary Bell Warland / Cornelius Conway Felton / Samuel Atkins Eliot / Andrew Craigie / George Duncan Callender / Thomas Boylston / Lawrence E. Chalk / John Barnes / James Russell Lowell / Zebina L. Raymond / Catherine Agnes / William A. Saunders / Robert C. Kelley / Benjamin Robinson / William Gladstone / Daniel Brown / James D. Green / John J. DeWolf / Abel Whitney / John Gorham Palfrey / James Brown / Dana Park / Samuel G. Reed / Otto von Bismark / George Henry Cutler / Sylvanus Plympton / Robert E. Lee / Patrick Holly / George William Fulkerson / James Dinsmore / Mary Ann Hammond / Edmund Dana / Mary Prentiss Saunders / John Francis Bellis / Benjamin Hallowell / Katherine Brattle / Landing After Elbridge Gerry / Jonathan Remington / Lewis M. Hastings / William Muller / Jonathan Loring Austin / Nicholas Boylston / Timothy Burns / Gardiner Green Hubbard / Solomon Sargent / Oliver Hazard Perry / Edward Everett / John Brewster / John Appleton / Richard Allen / Henry Bryant / Warren F. Roberts / James Lawrence / William E. Doyle / Gardiner Greene Hubbard / Lucius Paige / William Henry Harrison / Edward Gervase Blakeslee / Alexander Graham Bell / Daniel James Burns / Samuel Langdon / Robert E. Goodman / John Gibson / Washington Allston / Charles Follen / Henry Martyn Clarke / Mary Boylston / Josiah Quincy / Carolus Linnaeus / Ash / Joseph Cowperthwaite / George Meacham / Gerald L. Kelly / Edward F. Gurney / Willard Phillips / Charles Chauncey / Gertrude Mercer Hubbard / Gardiner Hubbard / Francis Dana / Ebenezer Francis Jr. / Louis Agassiz / Samuel Eliot / Asa Gray / William Lambert Whitney / Stephen Decatur / Acacia / Thomas Stearns / William H. Burns / George Berkeley / Henry Vassall / Merritt Fernald / Alexander McDonald / Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt / Ward Nicholas Boylston / George Phillips Bond / /

Position

Captain / mayor / astronomy professor / President / immigrant and tannery proprietor / statesman and Prime Minister / Chancellor / botanist / General / Secretary of State / superintendent / engineer / City Engineer / omnibus proprietor / gardener / first priest / Bishop / professor and President / liquor dealer / commander of the United States / curator / century Corporal / newspaper editor / Chief Justice / real estate broker / Commodore / Street After Judge / President of the US / florist / first governor / poet / first Mayor / Commissary-General / second president / Governor / philosopher Bishop / artist / After Bishop / City Clerk / War Apothecary General / Providence physician / Vice President of the U.S. / Corporal / curator of the Gray Herbarium / Dean / owner / member / Gardiner Hubbard's gardener / landowner Decatur Captain / official / Chief / /

Product

Franklin / Mayflower / Bossenger Foster / /

ProvinceOrState

Ontario / Massachusetts / /

PublishedMedium

The Boston Post / /

Region

New England / /

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