About This Station
The station is powered by a Ambient WS2080 weather station. The data is collected every 30 seconds and the site is updated every 10 minutes. This site and its data is collected using Cumulus Software. The station is comprised of an a rain gauge and a thermo-hydro sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible.
About This City
It was only in 1846 that Cambridge became a city, uniting three rival villages -- Old Cambridge, Cambridgeport and East Cambridge. Here's a brief history.
Porter Square was named for the now-vanished Porter's Hotel, operated by Zachariah B. Porter, who also left his name to the hotel's specialty, the cut of steak known as porterhouse. The hotel was demolished in 1909. The square, formerly flanked by cattle yards that used the Porter rail head to transport their beef throughout the US, was an important center for commerce and light industry as early as the late 18th century. A tunnel for moving cattle to and from the railroad without interfering with street traffic, known as the Walden Street Cattle Pass, was built in 1857. The tunnel survives under the nearby Walden Street Bridge, and recently, in 2007-08, was preserved and restored. The "most dramatic loss" of 19th century landscape in the square was the leveling of the old Rand Estate in 1952 to make way for the Porter Square Shopping Center.
In 1984 the Red Line was extended from Harvard through Porter and Davis Square to its present terminus at Alewife, a project that also left Porter with its most visible landmark, Susumu Shingu's 46-foot stainless steel kinetic sculpture entitled Gift of the Wind.
About This Website
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