WCOP & WBZ

[Kevin Vahey]

Who knew.....I was told Brookline broke away by the nuns at St Paul's in
Cambridge

On Jan 29, 2008 7:13 PM, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote:

> <<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
>
>