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FARTHER AFIELD

The late 19th and 20th centuries saw Boston “People’s Democratic Republic of Cambridge,”
expand out of the central colonial and a reference to the politics of Harvard and the
Victorian city into the surrounding area. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, its
old marshlands of the Fenway now house two major colleges. Harvard Square is a lively
two of Boston’s most important art museums, area of bookstores, cafés, and street enter-
the Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella tainers. Charlestown is the site of the Bunker
Stewart Gardner Museum. Southeast of the Hill Monument and the Charlestown Navy
city center, Columbia Point was developed Yard, where the U.S.’s most famous warship,
in the mid-20th century and is home to the the U.S.S. Constitution, is moored. Farther
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. West northwest lie historic Concord and Lexington,
of central Boston, across the Charles River, where the first major battles of the
lies Cambridge, sometimes referred to as the Revolutionary War took place in 1775.
Sights at a Glance
Towns 5 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
7 Cambridge 6 Museum of Fine Arts,
8 Charlestown Boston pp106–9
9 Concord Gardens and Zoos
0 Lexington 2 Franklin Park Zoo
Museums and Historic Sites 3 Arnold Arboretum
1 John F. Kennedy Library
and Museum Key
4 John F. Kennedy National Main sightseeing area
Historic Site
Urban area
Highway
Major road
0 kilometers 4 Minor road
0 miles 2 Railroad

Lynn
3 38 Saugus
Concord
95 Lexington 1
Winchester
1A
2 Malden
93
Broad
Arlington Sound
Revere
16
1
Chelsea
95
Belmont Somerville 1A
28
Watertown Winthrop
Logan
Cambridge International
Waltham
20 Boston
90
90 Newton
9
203 93
9 28
Natick Brookline
Wellesley
Roxbury
Quincy
Bay
Needham 95
Dedham 93
Neponset 28 Quincy
138 Milton
The Harvard University campus in Cambridge For keys to symbols see back flap
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