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Brookline

Massachusetts, United States
Also known as: Muddy River, Muddy River Hamlet
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Brookline, town (township), an exclave of Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies between Suffolk and Middlesex counties and is almost surrounded by Boston. Settled in 1638 as part of Boston, it was called Muddy River until incorporated as a town of Suffolk county in 1705. Named for a small brook that formed the line of Judge Samuel Sewall’s tract, it was an early market-gardening area and administratively became part of Norfolk county in 1793....

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