Brookline Massachusetts was first settled in 1638 as a hamlet in Boston, known as Muddy River; it was incorporated as a separate town in 1705.
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16 Facts About Brookline Massachusetts
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Once part of Algonquian territory, Brookline Massachusetts was first settled by European colonists in the early 17th century.
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Brookline Massachusetts has long been regarded as a pleasant and verdant environment.
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Whole of this neighborhood of Brookline Massachusetts is a kind of landscape garden, and there is nothing in America of the sort, so inexpressibly charming as the lanes which lead from one cottage, or villa, to another.
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Brookline Massachusetts residents were among the first in the country to propose extending the vote to women.
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Much of Brookline Massachusetts was developed into a streetcar suburb, with large brick apartment buildings sprouting up along the new streetcar lines.
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Brookline Massachusetts was known as the hamlet of Muddy River and was considered part of Boston until the Town of Brookline Massachusetts was independently incorporated in 1705.
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The overall density of Brookline Massachusetts, which includes suburban districts and grand estates south of the D-line, is still higher than that of many of the largest cities in the United States, especially in the South and West.
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Brookline Massachusetts became an exclave of Norfolk County in 1873, when the neighboring town of West Roxbury was annexed by Boston .
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Brookline Massachusetts refused to be annexed by Boston after the Boston–Brookline Massachusetts annexation debate of 1873.
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Brookline Massachusetts is governed by a representative town meeting, which is the legislative body of the town, and a five-person Select Board that serves as the executive branch of the town.
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In 2017, a Brookline Massachusetts Town Meeting voted to recognize Indigenous People's Day instead of Columbus Day.
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In 2019, Brookline Massachusetts banned the distribution of carry out plastic bags at grocery stores and other places of business.
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Town of Brookline Massachusetts is protected full-time by the 158 paid, professional firefighters of the Brookline Massachusetts Fire Department .
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