Newton, Massachusetts Newton, Massachusetts Official seal of Newton, Massachusetts Newton, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Newton, Massachusetts - Newton, Massachusetts Newton is a suburban town/city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
It is approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of downtown Boston and is bordered by Boston's Brighton and West Roxbury neighborhoods to the east and south, in the order given, and by the suburb of Brookline to the east, the suburbs of Watertown and Waltham to the north, and Wellesley and Needham to the west.
Rather than having a single town/city center, Newton resembles a patchwork of thirteen villages.
Census, the populace of Newton was 85,146, making it the eleventh biggest city in the state.
Newton's adjacency to Boston along with its historic homes, good enhance schools, and safe and quiet neighborhoods make it a desirable improve for those who commute to Boston. Newton is served by three modes of mass transit run by the MBTA: light rail, commuter rail, and bus service.
Newton has been persistently ranked as one of the best metros/cities to live in in the country.
In August 2012, Money periodical titled Newton fourth best small town/city among places to live in America and has been titled the safest town/city in the nation according to Aneki. Newton was settled in 1630 as part of "the newe towne", which became Cambridge in 1638; it became its own town in 1688.
There are a several historical sites of interest in the Newton area.
These include Crystal Lake (which is fronted by a several historical homes), the East Parish and West Parish Burying Grounds, and the Jackson Homestead, which now homes the Newton History Museum.
5.4.1 Newton Junior College Newton was settled in 1630 as part of "the newe towne", which was retitled Cambridge in 1638.
Roxbury minister John Eliot convinced the Native American citizens of Nonantum, a sub-tribe of the Massachusett led by a sachem titled Waban, to relocate to Natick in 1651, fearing that they would be exploited by colonists. Newton was incorporated as a separate town, known as Cambridge Village, in 1688, then retitled Newtown in 1691, and finally Newton in 1766. It became a town/city in 1873.
Newton is known as The Garden City.
In Reflections in Bullough's Pond, Newton historian Diana Muir describes the early industries that advanced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in a series of mills assembled to take favor of the water power available at Newton Upper Falls and Newton Lower Falls.
Snuff, chocolate, glue, paper and other products were produced in these small mills but, as stated to Muir, the water power available in Newton was not sufficient to turn Newton into a manufacturing city, although it was, beginning in 1902, the home of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, the manufacturer of the Stanley Steamer.
Newton, as stated to Muir, became one of America's earliest commuter suburbs.
The Boston and Worcester, one of America's earliest barns s, reached West Newton in 1834.
Wealthy Bostonian businessmen took favor of the new commuting opportunity offered by the barns , building gracious homes on erstwhile farmland of West Newton hill and on Commonwealth street.
One wave began with the streetcar lines that made many parts of Newton accessible for commuters in the late nineteenth century.
Even then, however, Oak Hill continued to be farmed, mostly market gardening, until the prosperity of the 1950s made all of Newton more densely settled.
Newton is not a typical "commuter suburb" since many citizens who live in Newton do not work in downtown Boston.
Most Newtonites work in Newton and other encircling cities and towns.
The town/city has two symphony orchestras, the New Philharmonia Orchestra of Massachusetts and the Newton Symphony Orchestra.
Each April on Patriots Day, the Boston Marathon is run through the city, entering from Wellesley on Route 16 (Washington Street) where runners encounter the first of the four continuing Newton Hills.
There are two more hills before reaching Centre Street, and then the fourth and most continuing of all, Heartbreak Hill, rises shortly after Centre Street.
Union Street, Newton Centre Newton is a suburban town/city approximately seven miles from downtown Boston, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at 42 20 16 N 71 12 36 W (42.337713, 71.209936). The town/city is bordered by Waltham and Watertown on the north, Needham and the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston on the south, Wellesley and Weston on the west, and Brookline and the Brighton neighborhood of Boston on the east.
From Watertown to Waltham to Needham and Dedham, Newton is bounded by the Charles River.
The portion of Needham which lies east of 128 and west of the Charles, known as the Needham Industrial Park has turn into part of a Newton commercial zone and contributes to its heavy traffic, though the tax revenue goes to Needham.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.2 square miles (47.1 km2), of which 18.0 square miles (46.6 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km2) (0.82%) is water.
Main article: List of villages in Newton, Massachusetts Rather than having a single town/city center, Newton is a patchwork of thirteen villages, many boasting small downtown areas of their own.
The 13 villages are: Auburndale, Chestnut Hill, Newton Centre, Newton Corner, Newton Highlands, Newton Lower Falls, Newton Upper Falls (both on the Charles River, and both once small industrialized sites), Newtonville, Nonantum (also called "The Lake"), Oak Hill, Thompsonville, Waban and West Newton.
Oak Hill Park is a place inside the village of Oak Hill that itself is shown as a separate and distinct village on some town/city maps (including a map dated 2010 on the official City of Newton website), and Four Corners is also shown as a village on some town/city maps.
Climate data for Newton, Massachusetts Newton, along with neighboring Brookline, is known for its considerable Jewish and Asian populations.
According to 2010 income statistics the town/city of Newton had a median homehold income of $112,230.
Newton has an propel strong mayor-council form of government.
The mayor is Setti Warren, a former Naval officer and White House staffer who is the first African American to be propel Mayor of Newton.
The City Council, Newton's legislative branch of municipal government, is made up of 24 members sixteen Councilors-at-large and eight Ward Councilors.
Newton also has a school committee which decides on the policies and budget for Newton Public Schools.
It has nine voting members, consisting of the Mayor of Newton and eight at-large Ward representatives, who are propel by people. In addition to these voting members, there are two non-voting student representatives; one from each high school.
The City of Newton Police Department is one of the most progressive departments in the state and has 139 sworn officers.
The Newton Fire Department is fully paid and operates three ladder companies and six engine companies from six stations.
Mismanagement of Middlesex County's enhance hospital in the mid-1990s left the county on the brink of insolvency, and in 1997 the Massachusetts council stepped in by assuming all assets and obligations of the county.
Khan, Democrat of Newton: Eleventh Middlesex District, includes precincts 2 and 3 of Ward 1, All precincts in Wards 2, 3 and 4 and precinct 2 of Ward 7, Newton. Balser, Democrat of Newton: Twelfth Middlesex District, includes all precincts in Wards 5 and 6, precincts 1, 3 and 4 of Ward 7; and all precincts in Ward 8, Newton. Cynthia Stone Creem, Democrat of Newton: 1st Middlesex District and Norfolk, since 1998. Public education is provided by Newton Public Schools. Newton North High School Newton South High School Jackson School is a private, Catholic elementary school sponsored by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Boston. Newton Country Day School Newton Montessori School is a K-6 private elementary school. Mount Alvernia High School is a private girls' school for grades 7 12. Colleges and universities positioned in Newton include: Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre Boston College Law School in Newton Centre Hebrew College in Newton Centre William James College, formerly Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology in Newton Upper Falls Newton Junior College Newton Junior College, directed by the Newton Public Schools, opened in 1946 to serve the needs of returning veterans who otherwise would not have been able to continue their education due to the overcrowding of universities and universities at that time.
It used the facilities of Newton High School (now Newton North High School) until its own adjoining ground was built.
Other former universities include Aquinas College (1961 1999), Mount Alvernia College (1959 1973) and Newton College of the Sacred Heart (1946 1975). Newton-Wellesley Hospital is positioned at 2014 Washington Street in Newton.
First Baptist Church in Newton First Unitarian Society in Newton Lutheran Church of the Newtons Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton, moved to Roslindale in 2000 Newton Highlands Congregational Newton Presbyterian Church Parish of the Good Shepherd, An Episcopal Church in Newton, Massachusetts Second Church in Newton The Church in Newton The Newton Center Minyan The city's improve newspapers are The Newton Tab, now presented by the Community Newspaper Company, and The Newton Voice.
The Newton improve is also served by its high school publications, including Newton North High School's Newtonite and Newton South High School's Lion's Roar and Denebola.
Residents of Newton have access to a state-of-the-art tv studio and improve media center, New - TV, positioned at 23 Needham Street in Newton Highlands.
Newton is also home to NECN, a county-wide news network owned by NBC.
Newton's biggest employers include Boston College and Newton-Wellesley Hospital.
Companies based in Newton include Tech - Target and Upromise.
Until July 2015, Newton was also home to the global command posts of Trip - Advisor, the world's biggest travel site, reaching nearly 280 million unique monthly visitors. Trip - Advisor moved into a newly assembled command posts in neighboring Needham. Newton $63,872 $119,148 $154,787 86,241 31,295 Newton's adjacency to Boston, along with its good enhance schools and safe and quiet neighborhoods, make it a very desirable improve for those who commute to Boston or work in Newton's businesses and industries.
Newton is well-served by three modes of mass transit run by the MBTA: light rail, commuter rail, and bus service.
The Green Line "B" Branch ends athwart from Boston College on Commonwealth Avenue, virtually at the border of Boston's Brighton neighborhood and the City of Newton (an region which encompasses an unincorporated suburban village referred to as Chestnut Hill).
The MBTA Worcester commuter rail, serving the northern villages of Newton that are proximate to Waltham, offers less incessant service to Boston.
Newton Centre, which is centered around the Newton Centre MBTA station, has been lauded as an example of transit-oriented development. The Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90), which basically follows the old Boston and Albany Railroad chief line right-of-way, runs east and west through Newton, while Route 128 (Interstate 95) slices through the extreme part of the town/city in the Lower Falls area.
Route 30 (Commonwealth Avenue), Route 16 (Watertown Street west to West Newton, where it follows Washington Street west) and route 9 (Worcester Turnpike or Boylston Street) also run east and west through the city.
Another primary Boston (and Brookline) street, Beacon Street, runs west from the Boston town/city line to Washington Street west of the hospital, where it terminates at Washington Street.
There are no primary north-south roads through Newton: every north-south street in Newton terminates inside Newton at one end or the other.
The only possible exception is Needham Street, which is north-south at the border between Newton and Needham, but it turns east and becomes Dedham Street, and when it reaches the Boston border, it goes south-east.
Centre Street runs south from the Watertown town line to Newton Highlands, where it becomes Winchester Street and terminates at Nahanton Street.
Walnut Street runs south from Newtonville, where it starts at Crafts Street, down to Newton Highlands, where it ends at Dedham Street. Crystal Lake is a 33-acre (130,000 m2) natural lake positioned in Newton Centre.
The Jackson Homestead, now the Newton History Museum at the Jackson Homestead, is best known for its history as a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Heartbreak Hill, prominently challenging stretch of the Boston Marathon, on Commonwealth Avenue between Centre Street and Boston College.
Newton is home to many exclusive golf courses such as Woodland Country Club, Charles River Country Club, and Brae Burn Country Club, which held the United States Open in 1919.
Echo Bridge is a notable 19th-century masonry arch bridge with views of the river and Hemlock Gorge in Hemlock Gorge Reservation just off Route 9 in Newton Upper Falls.
Chestnut Hill Reservoir is a very prominent park with inhabitants of Newton, Brookline, and the Brighton section of Boston.
Although completely inside the Boston town/city limits, it is directly adjoining to the Newton town/city limits.
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park in New York City and the Emerald Necklace in Boston, the park offers beautiful views of the Boston skyline, and is framed by stately homes and the ground of Boston College.
Bullough's Pond is an old foundry pond transformed into a landscape feature when Newton became a suburban improve in the late nineteenth century.
The town/city of Newton has designated a several roads in the town/city as "scenic".
The First Baptist Church in Newton Centre, assembled in 1888, was designed by John Lyman Faxon in the Richardsonian Romanesque style pioneered by architect Henry Hobson Richardson. There are a several cemeteries in Newton, three of which are owned by the City of Newton, while the rest are privately owned, as follows: Newton Cemetery, 791 Walnut Street, Newton Centre, private, 155 acres (0.63 km2), dates from 1855 West Parish Burying Ground (River Street Cemetery), West Newton, enhance Mary's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, 258 Concord Avenue, Newton Lower Falls, private Newton Cemetery Main article: List of citizens from Newton, Massachusetts The Fig Newton cookie is titled after the city.
In 1991, Newton and Nabisco hosted a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Fig Newton.
A 100-inch (250 cm) Fig Newton was served, and singer and guitarist Juice Newton performed. Newton is presently twinned with: List of Registered Historic Places in Newton, Massachusetts Fessenden House, which is the only National Historic Landmark positioned in Newton.
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