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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 the birthplace of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush , and architect Buckminster Fuller .
Milton, town (township), Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along the Neponset River, just south of Boston. Settled in 1636 as a part of Dorchester, it was early known as Uncataquisset, from an Algonquian word meaning “head of tidewater,” and was separately incorporated in 1662.
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A Brief History of Milton. by Brian Doherty, Chair, Milton Historical Society. Milton was first settled in 1640 as a village of the town of Dorchester. It was called Unquity from an Indian name, Unquity-Quisset, which meant where the head- waters of the Neponset River met the tidewaters of the bay.
History. Milton was settled in 1640 by Puritans who began the settlement of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. Originally a part of the town of Dorchester, Milton was incorporated as an independent town in 1662 and remains as such today, although it borders in the burgeoning city of Boston on the north along the Neponset River.
The Milton Historical Society was founded in 1904 to collect, preserve, publish and exhibit artifacts and records relating to the town of Milton, Massachusetts. It is headquartered at the Suffolk Resolves House, where a precursor to the Declaration of Independence was signed on September 9, 1774.
The Milton Historical Commission was formed in 1973 to identify and chronicle the architectural and historical resources of the town of Milton, Massachusetts. Established under the Massachusetts Historical Commission (Chapter 40, Section 8d of the Massachusetts General Laws) the Milton Historical Commission began its mission by identifying ...
