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These signs — numbering roughly 80 in total from First Street through Eighth Street — will serve as a constant, quotidian reminder to all Cambridge residents that the city they inhabit was not ...
Cambridge city leaders and members of the Massachusett tribe presented newly installed street signs last week in East Cambridge written in both English and Massachusett. In 2021, thousands of ...
A number of street signs in Cambridge have been redone to include translations to the language of the Massachusett tribe as part of an initiative to honor the area’s Indigenous history. The new ...
Cambridge is putting up around 80 street signs between First and Eighth streets in East Cambridge that translate street names into the language of the native Massachusett Tribe in an effort to ...
Windows into the past also come in the form of faded business signs, something that was recognised by Cambridge City Council over a decade ago. In 2012, the council commissioned a survey of these ...
The joint initiative was granted $180,000. This first phase including new street signs should cost less than $20,000, according to Sarah Burks from the Cambridge Historical Commission.
Cambridge will install new street signs with road names translated into the Massachusett language in a multi-year initiative to recognize the city’s historical ties to its Indigenous residents.
"On street signs, it's going to be something that will make people stop and think.” One of the characters in the Massachusett language word for "street" won't display properly as text on smartphones, ...
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