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  2. Brighton, Boston - Wikipedia

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    Brighton is a former town and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, [1] located in the northwestern corner of the city. It is named after the English city of Brighton . Initially Brighton was part of Cambridge , and known as "Little Cambridge".

  3. Allston–Brighton - Wikipedia

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    Chart of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay with Map of Adjacent Country, published 1867 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-02-07). A good map of roads and rail lines around East Allston/Brighton, showing the town line brook of Brookline. Old USGS Maps of Brookline area. See 1903 west maps.

  4. Brighton Center Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The oldest resource in the district is the Market Street Burial Ground, which was established in 1764. Originally part of Watertown and Cambridge in colonial times, Brighton was incorporated as a separate town in 1807 and annexed to Boston in 1874. The center area became a focus of the regional cattle business during the 19th century, but ...

  5. Neighborhoods in Boston - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Brighton (including Allston), Charlestown, Dorchester (including South Boston, Mid Dorchester, Mattapan and Hyde Park), Roxbury (including West Roxbury, Roslindale and Jamaica Plain), have all at some point been municipalities independent from downtown Boston, providing a source of well-defined boundaries for the largest areas.

  6. Suffolk County, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    1871 Map of Boston, Suffolk, County and Nearby Towns Pages 48-49 from the 1871 Atlas of Massachusetts. National Register of Historic Places listing for Suffolk Co., Massachusetts; US Census Bureau map of cities, towns, Native American reservations, and census-designated places

  7. Allston - Wikipedia

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    Brighton was annexed by the City of Boston in 1874. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow owned several properties in Allston. In 1887 the wooden depot was replaced by the station depicted at the right. In 1888 Boston's first trolley route began there, running a route through Coolidge Corner, Brookline, to Boylston Street, to downtown Boston. [8]

  8. Brookline, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    The northern and southern borders of the town were marked by two small rivers or brooks, which is the town's namesake. The northern border with Brighton (which was itself part of Cambridge until 1807) was Smelt Brook. (That name appears on maps starting at least as early as 1852, but sometime between 1888 and 1925, the brook was covered over. [3])

  9. Greater Boston - Wikipedia

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    The MAPC is a regional planning organization created by the Massachusetts legislature to oversee transportation infrastructure and economic development concerns in the Boston area. The MAPC includes 101 cities and towns that are grouped into eight subregions. These include most of the area within the region's outer circumferential highway, I-495.