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Milton Hill Historic DistrictMilton Hill Historic District is located
on a lofty hill located between Milton Village and Algerene Corner,
formerly known as Union Square, the junction of Adams and Centre Streets.
The district includes Adams and School Streets, Randolph and Canton
Avenues and Brook Road and has panoramic views of the marshes and river in
the foreground and the harbor beyond are superb. A road was laid out over
Milton Hill in 1654 that connected Braintree (now Quincy) and Roxbury;
this road was originally known as the “Country Heigh
Waye”, now known
as Adams Street, was the main road between Boston and the South Shore and
Plymouth Colony in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Once the
center of town life, the meetinghouse was located on Adams Street until
1728. Also a place of fashionable residence, it was once the summer seats
of Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson, whose estate was known as
“Unquety” (now Hutchinson Street) and An interesting feature on Milton Hill are granite milestones on Adams Street that were set up in 1722 (B.7. 1722), 1723 (B.8. 1723) and in 1734 (8 Miles to B. Town House. The lower way. 1734.) by Royal Governor Belcher. Notable houses and Other Aspects:
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