WCOP & WBZ

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:41:40 -0500, kvahey@comcast.net said:

> Allston begins at the BU Bridge allong that part of
> Commonwealth that Boston kept when Brookine broke away from Boston 

Brookline was never a part of Boston, so it could hardly have
"broke[n] away" from it.  The current Norfolk County (the second to
bear that name) was formed in 1793 by splitting Suffolk County, and
Brookline was a part of Norfolk County from the very beginning.
Brookline became disconnected from the rest of the county in 1873 when
Boston annexed West Roxbury, and lost that strip of Charles River
shoreline by Act of the General Court when Boston annexed Brighton
(prior to which, Brighton had been in Middlesex).

-GAWollman