Obviously the greatest advantage of Kendall Square is its nearness to the heart of the Hub. Supplant ing the primitive ferry across the Charles River the natural separation between two cities that otherwise might have been one - by a modest wooden bridge was an advance step, and Kendall Square gained a point or would have if it had been present at that time. The substitution, sixty years later, of a more substantial bridge and the introduction of horse cars was another point in favor of Kendall Square and this time it was there to acknowledge the favor. Fifty years passed, and then a granite bridge came, and with it the Cambridge Tunnel and Kendall Square was made. Its history in detail is of interest. In the Columbian Centinel of January 7, 1792, there appeared the following advertisement.

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