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Street were discontinued and enclosed with the adjoining lands immediately after “Mr. Hooker's company” removed.
The foregoing are all the highways of which I find any trace in the present bounds of Cambridge, prior to 1636.
On the south side of the river, however, a highway was early established, called the “highway to Roxbury,” from a point opposite to the College Wharf, in the general direction of the road from Cambridge Great Bridge, through the easterly portion of Brighton to Brookline.
Frequent reference is also made, in the early records, to the “highway from Watertown to Roxbury.”
Boston. Houghton and Mifflin. 1877.
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