Arlington, Massachusetts

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Local Information for Arlington, MA

Latitude: 42.417896 -- Longitude: -71.165722

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The Town of Arlington was originally settled by European colonists in 1635 as a village within the boundary of Cambridge, Massachusetts under the name Menotomy, an Algonquian word, the meaning of which has been lost. Prior to changing the name to Arlington in 1867, the area, including part of what is now Belmont, was incorporated in 1807 as West Cambridge. In 1867 the name "Arlington" was chosen in honor of those buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The Massachusett tribe, part of the Algonquian group of Native Americans, lived around the Mystic Lakes and Alewife Brook. By the time Europeans arrived, the local Indians had been devastated by disease; also, the tribal chief, Nanepashemet, had been killed by a rival tribe in about 1618. Nanepashemet's widow, known to history only as "Squaw Sachem", sold the land of her tribe to the colonists for ten pounds, with provisions that she could remain on her homestead land around the Mystic Lakes and continue hunting and farming. -- Source: Wikipedia.com