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Gilman Square
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<p>Gilman Square is a neighborhood in the area around Central Hill in <a href="/facts/Somerville%2c_Massachusetts/v9y5XsC3">Somerville, Massachusetts</a>, United States. Historic Gilman Square is at the junction of Medford, Pearl, and Marshall streets and has been a small commercial center since the mid 19th-century. With the development of the <a href="/facts/Gilman_Square_station/M20SIJWA">Gilman Square Green Line station</a>, city planning documents consider the area within a rough ten-minute walk of the new station to be part of the Gilman Square neighborhood. </p><p>Neighborhood lines are fuzzy and Gilman Square is sometimes considered part of the extensive <a href="/facts/Winter_Hill%2c_Somerville%2c_Massachusetts/m6aI6xUm">Winter Hill</a> neighborhood. The area has also been referred to as Central Hill, and distinct from Winter Hill to the north, Spring Hill to the southwest, and Prospect Hill to the southeast. </p>