Forbes House Museum
Forbes House Museum is a recreation area in Town of Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Forbes House Museum is situated nearby to the museum Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House, as well as near the building Dr. Amos Holbrook House.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House and Dr. Amos Holbrook House.
Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House
Museum
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The Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House, also known as the R. B. Forbes House and Forbes House Museum, is a house museum located at 215 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. It is now a National Historic Landmark, and is open to the public.
Dr. Amos Holbrook House
Building
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The Dr. Amos Holbrook House is a historic house at 203 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts. It was built about 1800 by Dr. Amos Holbrook, a pioneer in the propagation of smallpox inoculations as a means of improving public health. Dr. Amos Holbrook House is situated 460 feet northwest of Forbes House Museum.
Milton station
Railway station
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Milton station is a light rail station in Milton, Massachusetts, served by the Mattapan Line of the MBTA subway system. Located in the Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District, the station has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks. Milton station is situated 2,300 feet north of Forbes House Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lower Mills and Milton.
Lower Mills
Neighborhood
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The Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District is a historic district on both sides of the Neponset River in the Dorchester area of Boston and in the town of Milton, Massachusetts.
Milton
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Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and an immediate southern suburb of Boston. The population was 28,630 at the 2020 census.
Mattapan
Suburb
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Mattapan is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Mattapan is the original Massachusett name for the Dorchester area, possibly meaning "a place to sit." At the 2010 census, it had a population of 36,480, with the majority of its population immigrants.
Forbes House Museum
- Type: Recreation area
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Town of Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.26424° or 42° 15′ 51″ northLongitude
-71.06518° or 71° 3′ 55″ westElevation
112 feet (34 metres)Open location code
87JC7W7M+MWOpenStreetMap ID
way 512592326OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=recreation_groundGeoNames ID
4936984
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