Oh, What a Village

Cambridge is a wonderful little village with many important anniversaries. We've had many centennials and bicentennials to celebrate the history of our village.

The Cambridge Patent was granted in 1761. In 1773 Cambridge became a District and in 1788 a Town in the county of Albany.

It was annexed to Washington County in 1791 and separated into the Towns of Cambridge, White Creek, and Jackson in 1816. The East End (North White Creek) and the West End (Cambridge Corners) were incorporated into Cambridge Village in 1866.

In 1873 Honorable James S Smart included this description of Cambridge in his welcome address for the centennial celebration:

"Cambridge … it boasts not of its looms, it points to you no row of splendid houses, nor calls your attention to the hum of busy concerns, but it invites you to view a valley as fair as the land of promise, to look at the wood-crowned hills which cluster about it as emeralds set about a diamond”