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Cambridge Grant Historic District : ウィキペディア英語版 | Cambridge Grant Historic District
The Cambridge Grant Historic District (or Russell Hill) is a historic district located on 205-287 Russell Hill Road and 15 Wilker Road in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, at an elevation of 1240–1300 feet above sea level. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. == Early history == The district was granted to the town of Cambridge in 1734 as compensation for that town's responsibility in maintaining the first bridge across the Charles River connecting Boston to towns to the north, built in 1662.〔Isaac Stearns, ''History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts'', 1887〕 Known as the ''Cambridge Bridge Farm'', it remained unsettled until 1770, when John Adams of Menotomy (West Cambridge Parish) became the first settler with his new bride, Joanna Munroe, daughter of the Munroe family of Lexington, Massachusetts, owners of the Munroe Tavern. He was soon followed by other family members, including his father, Thomas Adams, Sr., his brother, Thomas Adams, Jr., his sister, Lucretia Adams Wetherbee, and his nephew, Thomas Russell, a relative of Jason Russell of the Jason Russell House. A community of interrelated settlers from the Adams and Russell families of Menotomy evolved. The principal occupation of many of the early settlers was the tanning of goat or sheep skins into Morocco leather.〔Stearns, Ibid.〕
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