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Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, and an affluent suburb of Boston.The population was 28,630 at the 2020 census. [1]Milton is located in the relatively hilly area between the Neponset River and Blue Hills, bounded by Brush Hill to the west, Milton Hill to the east, Blue Hills to the south and the Neponset River to the north.
Milton 42°12′42″N 71°06′55″W / 42.211667°N 71.115278°W / 42.211667; -71.115278 ( Great Blue Hill Weather Observatory A National Historic Landmark as "Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory" [ 5 ]
The Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District is a historic district on both sides of the Neponset River in the Dorchester area of Boston and in the town of Milton, Massachusetts. It encompasses an industrial factory complex, most of which was historically associated with the Walter Baker & Company , the first major maker of chocolate ...
The G. H. Bent Company, better known as Bent's Cookie Factory and recognized as bakers of "cold water crackers" since 1801, was a business specializing in cookies that operated in Milton, Massachusetts for over two centuries.
Milton Centre is located on a prominence known local as Academy Hill. The town was settled in 1633 as part of Dorchester, and was separately incorporated in 1662. Its first meetinghouse was built on Milton Hill, but Academy Hill was selected in 1727 (after many years of controversy) as the site of the town's third meetinghouse.
City Hall Square marks its eastern boundary, and Market Square its western. [2] Many of the buildings facing the common are residential and relatively unaltered since their construction in the 19th century. Stylistically they are in a variety of forms from Federalist to Colonial Revival, with Queen Anne houses outnumbering other styles.
The Milton Hill Historic District is a historic district in Milton, Massachusetts. Extending mainly along Adams Street across the top of Milton Hill, it encompasses a residential area of high-style homes dating from the 18th to early 20th centuries. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1]
The Brush Hill Historic District is a residential historic district along Brush Hill Road in Milton, Massachusetts.First developed in the 1660s, the district now encompasses a diversity of rural-suburban residential architecture from the late-17th to mid-29th centuries, encapsulating the development of the town's predominantly residential character.