Milton, MA
As some of you know, we are moving from Somerville to Milton, MA. Below is a little interesting piece of information about Milton.
The first American Railroad began in what is now East Milton Square. It was built to carry granite from the nearby Quincy quarries to build the Bunker Hill Monument. Rails of granite were laid from the point of origin (now obscured by the building of the Southeast Expressway) to a wharf on the Neponset River where the granite blocks were transfered to barges which then carried the blocks to Charlestown. There were of course no steam engines as yet and the railroad consisted of horse drawn wagons. Much of the route was downhill, so the horses did little pulling but were used to hold the wagons back. For those not familiar with this history, the battle of Bunker Hill, which this monument commemorates, was actually fought on Breeds Hill.