Some Things You Do Not Need to Know About...

...Somerville. Redux, as in we've done this before but just have to do it again.

Bette Davis lived the first decade of her life in Somerville. Katherine Hepburn's grandfather was from Somerville.

The smallest national park in the United States is in Somerville...on Winter Hill. It has nothing to do with James "Whitey" Bulger, rather it marks the spot where Paul Revere evaded capture during his "one if by land" gig. Speaking of that gig, the Brits took thier first hostile action against the emerging revolutionaries when they struck the old Mollet Grist Mill in Somerville in 1774. They confsicated 212 barrels of gunpowder and angered thousands of musket toting farmers.

The Ford plant in Somerville turned out 75,000 cars in 1948. In 1957, after building just 400 Edsels, the plant was ignominiously closed for good.