What Brookline looked like before it was named best suburb in the country
Coolidge Corner, The Country Club, Audobon Road Bridge, and everything else that makes Brookline special.
The town of Brookline was once a part of the city of Boston. In the 1630s the area was pastureland for some Bostonians who received land grants there, according to the Brookline town site.
The town gained its independence in 1705, but Bostonians were never happy about it. In the 1870s the city annexed other outlying areas like Brighton, West Roxbury and Charlestown, but it has yet to succeed in bringing Brookline back into the fold. On the positive side, that freed up Brookline to be named the best suburb in America this year.
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Brookline through the years:
Brookline can boast the birthplace of President John F. Kennedy, the Frederick Law Olmstead historic site, the historic Coolidge Corner Theater, and the oldest car collection in the United States at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum.
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