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Melrose is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the Greater Boston metropolitan area about seven miles north of Boston.

As of the 2020 census, Melrose had a population of 29,817, living in 12,141 households.

Melrose was originally called Ponde Fielde for its abundance of ponds and streams, and it was part of Charlestown and then Malden as North Malden before splitting from Malden and being incorporated as the town of Melrose in 1850.

The town annexed the highlands from neighboring Stoneham in 1853, became the City of Melrose in 1900 as the 33rd incorporated city in Massachusetts, and Levi S. Gould became its first mayor on January 1, 1900.

The name Melrose comes from the burgh of Melrose, Scotland, and was suggested by William Bogle, a Scotland native and longtime resident of North Malden, because the area resembled the Eildon Hills of Melrose, Scotland.

The city covers 4.77 square miles, and its largest body of water is Ell Pond near the city center, with Swains Pond and Towners Pond near Mount Hood Golf Club on the east side.

Melrose's population peaked at 33,180 in 1970, declined through 2010, and then rebounded by 10.5 percent to 29,817 in 2020.

Downtown Melrose was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 1, 1982, and the public library was added to the register in 1988.

Melrose's schools include the Franklin Early Childhood Center, five elementary schools named Roosevelt, Lincoln, Winthrop, Hoover, and Horace Mann, Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School, and Melrose High School.

MelroseWakefield Hospital, a 234-bed nonprofit hospital in Melrose, was home to the world's first cochlear implant and laser surgery and was among the first hospitals in the country to offer same-day surgery.