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Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. It is part of the Boston metropolitan area. Its population was 24,729 at the 2010 census. ==History== Belmont was established on March 10, 1864, by former citizens of, and land from the bordering towns of Watertown, to the south; Waltham, to the west; and Arlington, then known as West Cambridge, to the north. The town was named after ''Bellmont'', the 200 acre (0.8 km²) estate of one of the leading advocates of and largest donor to its creation, John Perkins Cushing. The easternmost section of the town, including the western portion of Fresh Pond, was annexed by Cambridge in 1880〔((17) )〕 in a dispute over a slaughterhouse licensed in 1878〔Belmont Historic District Commission, ''Belmont, Massachusetts: The Architecture and Development of The Town of Homes'', 1984〕 on Fresh Pond, so that Cambridge could protect Fresh Pond, a part of its municipal water system. Preceding its incorporation, Belmont was an agrarian based town, with several large farms servicing Boston for produce and livestock. It remained largely the same until the turn of the twentieth century, when trolley service and better roads were introduced, making the town more attractive as a residential area, most notably for the building of large estates. Belmont's population grew by over 90 percent during the 1920s.〔Schaeffer, K. H. and Elliott Sclar. ''Access for All: Transportation and Urban Growth''. Columbia University Press, 1980. Accessed on Google Books. (86 ). Retrieved on January 16, 2010. ISBN 0-231-05165-4, ISBN 978-0-231-05165-1.〕 The economics of the town shifted from purely agrarian to a commercial greenhouse base: much of the flower and vegetable needs of Boston were met from the Belmont 'hothouses' which persisted until about 1983 when Edgar's, the last large greenhouse firm in the area, closed. Other commercial enterprises in Belmont included mining and waste management. The reclamation of a large dump and quarry off Concord Avenue into sites for the Belmont High School and the Clay Pit Pond stands as a lasting example of environmental planning. With the introduction of automobiles and highways Belmont continued its transition to a commuter-based suburb throughout the twentieth century. Belmont was the home of the headquarters of the John Birch Society from the organization's founding in 1958 until its relocation to Appleton, Wisconsin in 1989. In 1963, English composer Arthur Bliss wrote ''The Belmont Variations'' based on the town of Belmont MA, where his wife Lady Trudy Bliss was born. The work was used at the Royal Albert Hall (London) as the test piece for the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Belmont, Massachusetts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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