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City (pop., 2000: 101,355), northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. Adjacent to Boston, it was founded in 1630 as one of the Massachusetts Bay Colony settlements.
The first American institution of higher learning, Harvard College (see Harvard University ), was founded here in 1636. George Washington took command of the Continental Forces at what is now Cambridge Common in 1775. In the 19th century it was the home of such literary leaders as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , James Russell Lowell , and Oliver Wendell Holmes . The Massachusetts Institute of Technology moved to Cambridge from Boston in 1916.