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The Milton Hill area first became prominent in the 1740s as the estate of Thomas Hutchinson, a prominent politician whose actions as Acting Governor and Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay heightened tensions leading to the American Revolutionary War.
Milton continued to be a popular suburban community in the early twentieth century. Page and Frothingham designed the Charles Clifford House (203 School Street) in 1910, and Fletcher Steele planned the country landscape setting by planting trees to frame a view of the Blue Hills in the distance.
From the mid nineteenth century to the early 1930's, Milton Hill was built up with significant architect designed houses of wealthy Milton and Boston businessmen. Here was born former United States president George H.W. Bush in 1924.
When the area became a separate town in 1662 it took the name Milton, likely following the tradition of selecting a town in England where early settlers had lived before immigrating. The three Milton hills that are not in the Blue Hills Reservation are, Academy Hill (131 ft.), Brush Hill (75 ft.), and Milton Hill (112 ft.).
In 1734, Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, the last royal Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, built a country estate on Milton Hill. His zealous loyalty to the crown made him an object of popular ridicule in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War, and, in 1774, shortly after the Boston Tea Party, Hutchinson fled to England.
The Milton Hill area first became prominent in the 1740s as the estate of Thomas Hutchinson, a prominent politician whose actions as Acting Governor and Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay heightened tensions leading to the American Revolutionary War.
Milton Hill is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Milton, Massachusetts. Milton Hill real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings.
