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Somerville is an incorporated city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, located directly to the northwest of Boston and north of Cambridge.

The area was first settled by Europeans in 1629 as part of Charlestown, was established as a separate town in 1842, and was incorporated as a city in 1872.

The 2020 census recorded a population of 81,045 in Somerville.

The 2020 census counted 34,448 households in Somerville.

Somerville covers a total area of 4.22 square miles, of which 4.12 square miles is land, giving it a 2020 density of 19,653.3 people per square mile and making it the most densely populated municipality in New England.

Tufts University has its campus along the Somerville and Medford border.

Somerville received the All-America City Award in 1972, 2009, and 2015.

The Old Powder House in Nathan Tufts Park was first built by settlers in the early 1700s as a windmill and was sold to the colonial government of Massachusetts for use as a gunpowder magazine in 1747.

Just after dawn on September 1, 1774, about 260 British regulars removed all the gunpowder from the Powder House, an act that provoked a massive popular reaction and is considered a turning point on the road to the Revolutionary War.

Prospect Hill in Somerville became the central position of the Continental Army during the Siege of Boston, and it is believed that the Continental Union Flag flew there for the first time on January 1, 1776.