Belmont, Massachusetts, was founded on March 18, 1859 by former citizens of, and land from, the bordering towns of Watertown (to the south), Waltham (to the west) and West Cambridge (now Arlington, to the north and east). The town was named after Bellmont, the 200 acre estate which belonged to one of the leading advocates of, and largest donor to, its creation - John Perkins Cushing. The Town of Belmont lies between the watersheds of the Charles and the Mystic rivers

Preceding its incorporation, Belmont was an agrarian town, servicing Boston for produce and livestock. It remained so until the turn of the twentieth century, when trolley service and better roads were introduced, for the first time making the town attractive as a residential area, most notably for the building of large estates.

Today, Belmont remains a primarily residential suburb with little growth since the 1950s. It is best known for the mansion-filled Belmont Hill neighborhood, although most residents live in more densely settled, low-lying areas around the Hill. There are three major commercial centers in the town: Belmont Center in the center, Cushing Square in the south, and Waverley Square in the west. Town Hall and other civic buildings are located in Belmont Center. Large tracts of land from former farms and greenhouse estates form public or public-accessible areas such as Rock Meadow, Habitat (Audubon), portions of the McLean Hospital tract and various town fields.

Major roads in the town are Concord Avenue, which bisects the town from east to west, Common Street and Pleasant Street (Route 60) which travel north-south through Belmont, and Trapelo Road and Belmont Street which run along the southern edge of the town. Massachusetts Route 2 runs along the northern border of the town. Belmont is also served by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Fitchburg Commuter Rail line and several bus lines.

Largely due to its proximity to Cambridge and Boston, Belmont has had over a dozen Nobel Prize winners in residence at one time or another. Other well-known past and present residents have included entertainers James Taylor, Joan Baez and Tom Bergeron, government leaders Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (one of the aforementioned Nobel Prize winners), Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, scientists Leslie Valiant, Fred Lawrence Whipple, and Nobel winner Robert Burns Woodward. Crown Princess of Japan Masako Owada and Nobel Economist Paul A. Samuelson, deviled ham magnate William Underwood and Junior Mints inventor Robert W. Welch Jr also lived in Belmont, MA.

For more information on activities in and around Belmont, Massachusetts, visit:

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Belmont Homes and Real Estate

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