Canton, Massachusetts Canton, Massachusetts Official seal of Canton, Massachusetts Location in Norfolk County in Massachusetts Canton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
Canton is part of Greater Boston, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of downtown Boston.
Canton was officially incorporated on February 23, 1797 from the town of Stoughton, Massachusetts.
The name "Canton" was suggested by Elijah Dunbar and comes from the early belief that Canton, China was on the complete opposite side of the earth (antipodal). In addition to being a prominent Canton citizen, Elijah Dunbar was the first president of the Stoughton Musical Society from 1786 to 1808. Now titled the Old Stoughton Music Society, it is the earliest choral society in the United States. Paul Revere assembled the nation's first copper rolling foundry in Canton in 1801.
His poem entitled Canton Dale expresses his affection for the town.
Canton was the locale of the Rising Sun Stove Polish Company, established by Elijah Morse, a wealthy merchant and creator of the pot-belly stove. Canton is the command posts of Reebok, Dunkin' Donuts, Computershare (North American HQ), Organogenesis, Inc., Interpolymer Corporation, Casual Male Retail Group, and formerly, Tweeter.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 19.6 square miles (51 km2), of which, 18.9 square miles (49 km2) of it is territory and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2) of it (3.27%) is water.
Canton lies at the foot of Great Blue Hill.
The Canton River flows through the center of the town, linking a chain of small lakes including Bolivar and Forge Ponds and flowing into the Neponset River.
The Neponset River forms the boundary between Canton and its neighbors: Norwood, Westwood, and Dedham.
Canton borders the suburbs of Dedham, Milton, Norwood, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, Westwood and the Hyde Park neighborhood in the town/city of Boston.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. As of the 2010 census, there were 21,561 citizens , 7,952 homeholds, and 5,550 families residing in the town.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 29.9% from 25 to 44, 24.0% from 45 to 64, and 16.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The town of Canton has three enhance elementary schools, namely the John F.
Canton has one enhance middle school, the William H.
Canton also has a enhance high school, Canton High School, that provides grades 9-12.
In addition, the state's Massachusetts Hospital School is in Canton. The Blue Hills Regional Technical School and the Canton ground of Massasoit Community College are positioned inside the town as well. Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech, formerly Clarke School for the Deaf, operates a satellite school, "Clarke Boston", in Canton for kids who are diagnosed with deafness at an early age and then are mainstreamed to a enhance school.
Clarke is the earliest school for the deaf in the nation that teaches kids to lip-read and speak orally, clean water use sign language; its chief campus is positioned 80 miles to the west in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Canton High Boys Varsity Hockey team won the Division II State Championships at the TD North Garden in Boston in 2010.
Canton has the open town meeting form of government.
The Planning Board approves new town subdivisions, reviews site plans for commercial development, oversees the suburbs scenic ways, drafts and approves a town wide master plan, and statutorily provides recommendations to Town Meeting regarding zoning and development.
The Finance Committee studies the financial affairs of the town, advises and make recommendations to the Town Meeting on the budget and other areas with fiscal implications and serves as the fiscal watchdog for the voters.
Interstates 93, 95, and Massachusetts Route 128 diverge in Canton.
South of Canton, it leads to Providence, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York City, Washington, D.C.
Route 138 has a cloverleaf interchange with Route 93 in Canton near Great Blue Hill.
From Canton, it goes north into Milton, then enters Boston in the Mattapan section.
South of Canton, it travels to Stoughton, closing into Rhode Island, through Newport and ending in southwest RI.
Route 24 is a divided, limited-access highway that originates at Route 93 in Randolph, just east of Canton.
From there, it goes south through the easternmost corner of Canton, running roughly alongside to Route 138 as far as Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
MBTA commuter rail trains on the Providence/Stoughton Line pass through Canton.
Some stop at Canton Junction.
This line crosses the Neponset River on the Canton Viaduct, a prominent small-town landmark.
Route 128 Station in neighboring Westwood also carries many Canton commuters into Boston.
Amtrak trains (including the Acela Express high-speed trains) also stop at Route 128, but pass through Canton without stopping.
Of note, on March 25, 2008 a runaway box car crashed into a MBTA train at Canton Junction station injuring 150 citizens on board. Another line chapters into Stoughton, stopping at Canton Center.
Although Canton once had an airfield, since 1970 it no longer does.
Norwood Memorial Airport is the closest airport to Canton.
A west side view of the Canton Viaduct looking south with the former Revere Copper Mill in the background, April 1977.
The Canton Viaduct, assembled in 1835, is one of the two earliest surviving multiple arch contemporary railroad bridges still in active mainline use in the United States.
Canton Corner Historic District The David Tilden House, a nearly 300-year-old home positioned inside the Canton Corner Historic District.
The Massachusetts Audubon Society's Visual Arts Center, where the Mildred Morse Allen Wildlife Sanctuary is located, homes extensive collections of natural history art and photography.
Acambis, one of the several smallpox vaccine producers contracted by the United States Government, makes its vaccine at the Shawmut Industrial Park in Canton.
In the many months after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Army National Guard units were stationed around the factory and now the Canton Police has a regular patrol of the park.
Exchange students from there spend three weeks in the United States studying at Canton High School and living with families of students at Canton High School who take German.
Canton High students then have the opportunity to travel and live in Bocholt for three weeks in the spring.
The program is organized by the Canton High School German Department and, as of 2012, is in its 29th year.
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Massachusetts Hospital School Bureau of Public Health Facilities, Department of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Retrieved on March 15, 2009) Scores injured in Canton commuter rail crash Boston - Herald.com Archived April 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
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