For millennia before this area became known as Cambridge, it was called Anmoughcawgen – in the Algonquin Natick dialect, “fishing weir” or “beaver dam,” which described the neighborhoods from Alewife to Kendall/MIT. A Participatory Budgeting project will return traditional Eastern Woodland languages to city property.

The military and diplomatic skirmishes of the early 19th century created greater opportunities for Black sailors, as shipowners and captains took any able-bodied men they could find, regardless of race.

As the Cambridgeport neighborhood grew and changed over decades and many Black residents were displaced, St. Augustine’s had a period of disrepair.

The Howard School, like other industrial schools created by the Freedman’s Bureau after the Civil War, functioned just as much to control the economic and moral destiny of freed people as to educate and uplift them.

Louis Fenerlis, of Louie’s Haircuts in Boston, considers himself to be a proud product of Cambridgeport. When his family moved during during his first year in high school, he says he never adjusted to the new town.

How did you learn about Native American/American Indian people? Your experiences and memories will be helpful primary source material for our scholars.

For the second year, Many Helping Hands 365 will join with community partners in leading a community walk to highlight the history and present of Cambridge’s Black and Brown community in The Coast, Riverside and Cambridgeport neighborhoods.

As it moves forward with its Year of Cambridgeport, History Cambridge is excited to share that it has received a grant from the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati for a series of programs on Fort Washington Park

As part of History Cambridge’s mission to collect and share the stories of all Cantabrigians, it is embarking on a new way of engaging with the city’s history.

History Cambridge looks back on 2022, a year filled with events and collaborations aiding in collecting and sharing the stories of all Cantabrigians.