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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".
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 ...
1871 Atlas of Massachusetts. by Wall & Gray. Map of Massachusetts. Map of Middlesex County. History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Compiled by Samuel Adams Drake, published 1879, Volume1 page 278 Brighton, by Rev. Frederic Whitney. Note Brighton was originally part of Middlesex County before joining Boston which is Suffolk County.
Stylized map of the Boston subway system from 2013. The map does not reflect changes since, including the 2014 opening of Assembly station, the 2018 start of SL3 service, and the 2022 opening of the Green Line Extension. This is a list of MBTA subway stations in Boston and surrounding municipalities. All stations are operated by the ...
[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.
1871 Map of Middlesex County Plate 44-45 from the 1871 Atlas of Massachusetts. National Register of Historic Places listing for Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; Middlesex County entry from Hayward's New England Gazetteer of 1839; Map of cities and towns of Massachusetts Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine; Massachusetts County Map
Commonwealth Avenue (colloquially referred to as Comm Ave) is a major street in the cities of Boston and Newton, Massachusetts. It begins at the western edge of the Boston Public Garden, and continues west through the neighborhoods of the Back Bay, Kenmore Square, Boston University, Allston, Brighton and Chestnut Hill.
The first exit of the Boston Extension, exit 125, is an eastbound entrance and westbound exit at Route 16 in Newton. [18] The turnpike enters Suffolk County in Boston before reaching the "Allston–Brighton tolls", depositing traffic toward the Boston neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton and the nearby city of Cambridge. [4]