WCOP & WBZ

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 29 Jan 2008 at 16:18, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> 1970s?!  Try 1870s, Joe.  (That always-reliable source of
> authoritative geographic information, Wikipedia, puts it at a
> reassuringly exact Januay, 1874.)
 
Yeah, typos abound!  I was in my office when I wrote that.  If I had 
been at home, I could have checked my handy-dandy reference of 
"Historical Data Relating to Counties, Cities, and Towns in 
Massachusetts," published by the office of Paul Guzzi, Secretary of 
the Commonwealth, in 1975.  

It says that the Town of Brighton was incorporated on 24 February 
1807 from part of Cambridge and annexed another part of Cambridge on 
27 January 1816.  The legislation annexing Brighton to Boston was 
enacted on 21 May 1873, accepted by both Brighton and Boston on 27 
October 1873, and took effect 5 January 1874.

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