Somerville
a city in Middlesex co., Mass.; on the Mystic river, and on the Boston and Maine railroad. It comprises nearly a dozen villages, and contains a public library, high schools, Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, a hospital, street railroads, electric lights, National, savings, and co-operative banks, and several weekly newspapers. It has desk factories, iron foundries, flour mills, tube works, and large slaughtering and meat-packing plants. The city is built on seven hills, some of which were fortified during the Revolutionary War, and the remains of some of the structures are still preserved, including the "old powder house" on Quarry Hill. The city is a favorite residential suburb of Boston business men. Pop. (1910) 77,236; business men. (1920) 93,091.