Settled in 1630, Brighton was a part of the Town of Cambridge until its incorporation in 1807. Eventually the cattle industry became prominent, with the Brighton Stock Yards and Brighton Abattoir providing beef to the Boston area. In 1874 it was annexed to the City of Boston along with Charlestown and West Roxbury.
May 18, 2024
Brighton
Neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts
Brighton is a former town and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 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". Wikipedia
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Brighton separated from Cambridge in 1807 after a bridge dispute, and was annexed to Boston in 1874. For much of its early history, it was a rural town with a ...
For hundreds of years before the settlement of Brighton, Native Americans called the Seneca occupied the vast wilderness between the Genesee River and ...
In 1646, the Reverend John Eliot, the "Apostle to the Indians," converted the local natives to Christianity and established a "Praying Indian" village, Nonantum ...
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Originally home to the Pawtucket and later settled by Europeans in 1630, the area was originally part of Watertown. In 1634, the Massachusetts Bay Colony ...
The Town of Brighton existed as an idependent political entity from 1807 until 1873. The records present within this collection span the dates 1823 through ...
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The Town of Brighton existed as an idependent political entity from 1807 until 1873. The records present within this collection span the dates 1823 through ...
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May 19, 2017 · Thus when the question was finally put to the voters in the fall of 1873, Brighton embraced annexation by an overwhelming vote of 622 to 133.
Prior to Allston-Brighton's first English settlement in 1647-49, the Oak Square area had been a Native American settlement. It was at Nonantum Hill in 1646 that ...
Jan 29, 2019 · In 1874, after a majority vote by the town's population, Brighton was absorbed into the City of Boston in the hopes of benefitting from improved ...
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