Magoun Square
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Magoun Square is a neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts located at the intersection of two major streets, Broadway and Medford Street, with the smaller Dexter Street. It is close to Tufts University in neighboring Medford, Massachusetts. It is a mixed-use urban area. Medford Street crosses into Medford just north of this intersection and becomes Main Street.
Magoun Square was named after Thatcher Magoun, a Medford icon who led its shipbuilding industry in the mid-1800s1. The square is officially named "Sloane Square" and signs in the square indicate it as such, but area residents have always called it by its older name, Magoun Square.
The Green Line (MBTA) Somerville-Medford extension has a proposed stop immediately west of the commercial district, in Ball Square.
The recorded voices on different MBTA buses pronounce this square's name two different ways when approaching the stop. The "male" voice pronounces it "Mc-GOON Square" whereas the "female" voice pronouncees it "Mc-GOWAN Square."
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