History of Newton, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Newton, Massachusetts, USA

• 1639 - Newton is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1661 - The first church in the area, founded in 1661 at East Parish (Newton Centre), was the traditional church of the Puritans
  
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• 1688 - Newton is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1839 - Newton
  Newton, Massachusetts
  Middlesex county. A very beautiful, agricultural and manufacturing town, the Nonantum of the Indians, 7 miles W. by S. from Bos...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1845 - NEWTON. [Pop. 3,351. Inc. 1691.]
  Newton is a corruption of New Town, by which name this part of Cambridge was called after it was dropped by the alder part of the town. Previously...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1848 - Newton
  The exact period of the commencement of the settlement of Newton is unknown. It was originally a part of Cambridge, and was styled Cambridge Village, ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Newton
  Newton, a post-township of Middlesex CO., Massachusetts, intersected by the Boston and Worcester railroad, 10 miles W. from Boston, contains 1 bank. P...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1871 - Express Delivery
  At Denver, Col., a few days ago, a man tried to have himself sent by express to Newtown Corners, Mass., by securing himself in a box expressly manufac...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1872 - Boston pays its female teachers an average of $67.92 per month, and Newton $65.54.
  These are the highest in the State. The lowest is the town of New Ashford, which pays only $16.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  March 16, 1872
  
  
• 1873 - Newton is incorporated as a city
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
•  1889 - 200th Anniversary
  The city of Newton, one of Boston's suburbs, celebrated its two hundredth anniversary as a town on the 27th.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  January 5, 1889
  
  
• Newton Massachusetts, 1890
  NEWTON is a large and handsome city of residences, having also its manufacturing localities, and is rapidly increasing in population and wealth. It li...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1891 - First Fig Newton
  The Kennedy Biscuit Works (later Nabisco) used a machine invented by James Henry Mitchell to mass-produce the first Fig Newton Cookies and named it fo...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Newton / Newton Corner
  Newton, or Newton Corner, a post-village of Middlesex co., Mass., a part of the city of Newton, on Charles River, and on the Boston & Albany Railroad,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Newton Square, Newton, Mass.
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  Library
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  Echo Bridge, Newton, Mass.
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  "The Evans", 1905
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  The Square, 1905
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  The Common, Newton Centre (1905)
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• 1905
  Newton, a banking city of Middlesex co., Mass., adjoining Boston on the WSW., on the Boston and Albany R. It contains several villages, namely, Newton...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Lake Ave, Newton Centre, 1906
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  S. F. Smith's House at Newton Centre, Mass. "Author of America", 1907
  
  The home in which Smith and his family lived in Newton is no longer standing. In 1958, a society was formed to buy and preserve it, but the home was damaged by fire in 1968 and ... Read MORE...
  
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  Eliot Congregational Church
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  Newton Hospital
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  Masonic Building
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  Hyde School
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  The New City Hall
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  The Brae-Burn Country Club
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  Newton Station, Boston & Albany R.R.
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