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Milton MA Community Profile & History
Milton, Massachusetts is an affluent suburban community between the Neponset River and the Blue Hills. Although the first English traders arrived in the 1620's, the earliest permanent settlement occurred in 1634 when colonists created an agricultural community, growing barley, rye and Indian corn. A powder mill established in 1674 is thought to be the earliest in the colonies, taking advantage of the town's valuable water power sites.
Boston investors, seeing the potential of the town and its proximity to the city, provided the capital to develop 18th-century Milton as an important industrial site with an iron slitting mill, paper and sawmills and the first chocolate factory in New England in 1764. Benjamin Crahore began making pianos in 1800 in what is thought to be the first piano factory in the country.
Situated at the head of a tidewater, the town became a commercial trading center where goods from the interior could be exchanged for West Indian imports. Prosperous Bostonians, including Governor Hutchinson, followed their investments and moved to the town, creating an early estate district which grew side-by-side with 125 farms.
Immigrants from Ireland, Nova Scotia and Scotland further accelerated the town's growth, drawn to the new jobs created by the mills. Laying of streetcar lines fueled the rapid expansion of residential development and between 1870 and 1915 Milton effectively grew into the community it is now, a wealthy streetcar suburb with only some chocolates, biscuits and market produce to remind residents of the past.
By 1929 many of the big estates were broken up into subdivisions continuing the town's residential growth. The community retains a good many 19th century country houses, estates and early 19th century workers' houses today.
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