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Figure 4. The Old Burying Ground at Harvard Square
The Cambridge Town Records first mention a graveyard under date of 4 January 1635 . The town had been founded less than five years earlier as New-Towne, with initial boundaries stretching more than 35 miles and including territory of modern communities as far south as Waban and as far north as Billerica.
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