Gilman Square

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
The <a href="/facts/Boston_and_Lowell_Railroad/300uFmvT">Boston and Lowell Railroad</a> came to the area in the mid 19th century, and rapid property development followed. By the turn of the century, Gilman Square featured a public green surrounded by four-story commercial buildings.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a>
Gilman Square was named for Charles E. Gilman.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a> Gilman was Somerville's town clerk during its entire existence as a town and the first elected city clerk, a position he remained in until his death.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (2003). Somerville (Images of America: Massachusetts). Arcadia Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 0738512907. <a href="0738512907" target="_blank">0738512907</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">"Report Depicts Possible Future for Gilman Square". Somerville, MA Patch. January 6, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2021. <a href="https://patch.com/massachusetts/somerville/report-depicts-possible-future-for-gilman-square" target="_blank">https://patch.com/massachusetts/somerville/report-depicts-possible-future-for-gilman-square</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Gilman Square Station Area Plan, page 24 <a href="https://2xbcbm3dmbsg12akbzq9ef2k-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gilman-Square-Station-Area-Plan-Final-Web.pdf" target="_blank">https://2xbcbm3dmbsg12akbzq9ef2k-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gilman-Square-Station-Area-Plan-Final-Web.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">"G. M. Hopkins Atlas of the City of Somerville, Massachusetts, 1874, Graphic Index". Scanned Maps - CURIOSity Digital Collections. Retrieved May 26, 2021. <a href="https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/scanned-maps/catalog/44-990057342220203941" target="_blank">https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/scanned-maps/catalog/44-990057342220203941</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">"Walker Lith. & Pub. Co. 1913 Map of Cambridge and Somerville, Mass". Scanned Maps - CURIOSity Digital Collections. 1913. Retrieved May 26, 2021. <a href="https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/scanned-maps/catalog/44-990142727990203941" target="_blank">https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/scanned-maps/catalog/44-990142727990203941</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">Gilman Square Station Area Plan, page 24 <a href="https://2xbcbm3dmbsg12akbzq9ef2k-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gilman-Square-Station-Area-Plan-Final-Web.pdf" target="_blank">https://2xbcbm3dmbsg12akbzq9ef2k-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gilman-Square-Station-Area-Plan-Final-Web.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (2003). Somerville (Images of America: Massachusetts). Arcadia Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 0738512907. <a href="0738512907" target="_blank">0738512907</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus); Kimball, Henry H. (Henry Hastings) (1897). Somerville, past and present : an illustrated historical souvenir commemorative of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the city government of Somerville, Massachusetts. Boston Public Library. Boston : Samuels and Kimball. p. 543.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) <a href="http://archive.org/details/somervillepastpr00samu" target="_blank">http://archive.org/details/somervillepastpr00samu</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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