Cambridge

Cambridge is part of the Boston metropolitan area, Massachusetts, New England. It was founded in December 1630 and was initially referred to as Newe Towne. In May 1638, the settlement’s name was changed to Cambridge in reference to the University of Cambridge, England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town’s founders. In the nineteenth century, Cambridge was home to famed American poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Cambridge is home to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.