Brookline

Town in Norfolk County, eastern Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, which surrounds it to the east, south, and north; population (1998 est) 54,000. Its economy is based on retail and wholesale trading; furniture-making, printing, and publishing are also important.

Land was allocated here in the 1630s when the settlement was called Muddy River Hamlet. It was incorporated as a town in 1705 when it was named Brooklin, after the first town clerk. The town includes Brookline village, Longwood, Beaconsfield, and part of Chestnut Hill. The birthplace of President John F Kennedy (which has been restored to its 1917 appearance) and Fairstead, the home of US landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted, are among 15 entries on the national register of historic places. The Museum of Transportation is situated in the 1888 carriage house of Larz and Isabel Anderson and displays cars. The Longwood Cricket Club is famed for its tennis tournaments. There are several colleges in the town.

Residents from the area were much involved in the Revolutionary War. Famous residents have included musician Arthur Fiedler and John Enders who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1954. It was a local doctor, Zabdiel Boylston, who introduced smallpox inoculation to the American colonies in the 18th century.

Brookline

Residential neighbourhood on the southern side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the southern slope of Mount Washington. It was named after Brookline, Massachusetts, and was developed in 1910.