id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-400 Cambridge, Massachusetts - Wikipedia .html text/html 14965 2139 71 In 1629, Winthrop had led the signing of the founding document of the city of Boston, which was known as the Cambridge Agreement, after the university.[21] In 1650, Governor Thomas Dudley signed the charter creating the corporation that still governs Harvard College.[22] A short distance away from the square lies the Cambridge Common, while the neighborhood north of Harvard and east of Massachusetts Avenue is known as Agassiz, after the famed scientist Louis Agassiz. Mid-Cambridge (Area 6) is bordered on the north by Kirkland and Hampshire Streets and Somerville, on the south by Massachusetts Avenue, on the west by Peabody Street, and on the east by Prospect Street. The proximity of Cambridge's universities has also made the city a center for nonprofit groups and think tanks, including the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cultural Survival, and One Laptop per Child.[citation needed] A group of start-up companies have emerged in Kendall Square since 2010.[77] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-400.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-400.txt