A very peculiar petition began making the rounds of Old Cambridge in December 1842 aiming to roll back the clock, as it were, to when the three neighborhoods of Cambridge were a single village centered around the common and Harvard College.
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A very peculiar petition began making the rounds of Old Cambridge in December 1842 aiming to roll back the clock, as it were, to when the three neighborhoods of Cambridge were a single village centered around the common and Harvard College.