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Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, located roughly 8 miles west of downtown Boston, and it is made up of a patchwork of thirteen villages rather than having a single city center.

The first English settlement of what is now Newton began in 1639, and the community was incorporated as a separate town, known as Cambridge Village, on December 15, 1681, before being renamed Newtown in 1691 and finally Newton in 1766, and it became a city on January 5, 1874.

Newton is nicknamed 'The Garden City', and its motto is 'Liberty and Union'.

The 2020 census recorded Newton's population as 88,923, with 31,704 households, and the city's total area is 18.16 square miles, of which 17.83 square miles is land.

The Charles River flows along the north and west parts of Newton, and the city is also home to Crystal Lake, a 33-acre natural lake in Newton Centre, and to Heartbreak Hill on Commonwealth Avenue.

Each April on Patriots' Day, the Boston Marathon runs through Newton, where runners encounter the four Newton Hills, the last and most noted being Heartbreak Hill, which rises shortly after Centre Street.

Newton became one of North America's earliest commuter suburbs when the Boston and Worcester Railroad, one of North America's earliest railroads, reached West Newton in 1834.

Beginning in 1902, Newton was the home of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, the maker of the Stanley Steamer, and mills at Newton Upper Falls and Newton Lower Falls once produced snuff, chocolate, glue, and paper.

The Jackson Homestead, built in 1809 as a Federal-style farmhouse and now the Newton History Museum, is best known as a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Echo Bridge, a notable 19th-century masonry arch bridge, stands over Hemlock Gorge in the Hemlock Gorge Reservation just off Route 9 in Newton Upper Falls, and Brae Burn Country Club in Newton held the United States Open in 1919.