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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BROOKLINE , a township of See also:

Norfolk See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., about 3 m. S.W. of See also:Boston, lying immediately S. of the Back See also:Bay See also:district. Pop. (189o) 12,103; (1900) 19,935, of whom 6536 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910, See also:census) 27,792. The See also:area of the township in 1906 was 6.75 sq. m. It is served by the Boston & See also:Albany railway, and is connected with Boston by an electric See also:line. Brookline is the wealthiest of the residential suburbs of Boston; and contains a number of beautiful estates and homes. Within its limits are the villages of Cottage See also:Farm, Longwood, and See also:Reservoir Station,or See also:Chestnut Hill—the Chestnut See also:Hill reservoir is just beyond the township. Brookline has an excellent public library. At See also:Clyde See also:Park are the grounds and See also:club-See also:house of the Boston See also:Country Club. Brookline has See also:long been regarded as a See also:model See also:city suburb. It is connected with Boston See also:Common by boulevards of the See also:Metropolitan Park See also:System.

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settlement was probably made about 1635, and it was called Muddy See also:River until 1705, when it was created a township under the name of Brookline. Up to 1793 it belonged to See also:Suffolk county, of which Boston is a See also:part, and since that See also:time it has belonged to Norfolk county; but Boston has in its growth almost surrounded it, and because of its See also:great See also:wealth there has been a long struggle for and against its See also:merger in Boston. See also:Frederick See also:Law See also:Olmsted, the famous landscape gardener, had his See also:home in Brookline, where there are various examples of his See also:work. See H. F. See also:Woods, See also:Historical Sketches of Brookline (Boston, 1874) ; C. K. See also:Bolton, Brookline, The See also:History of a Favored See also:Town (Brookline, 1897) ; and J. W. Denehy, History of Brookline, 1630—1go6 (See also:Allston, See also:Mass., 1907).

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