It linked the Charles River to the Neponset River.

The Granite Railway, America's first railroad, was built to haul granite from the quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts, to the Neponset River in the 1820s.

One of the highest points ( if not the highest point ) between Chicago and the Mississippi River on the mainline of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ( now the Burlington Northern Santa Fe ) is just outside of Neponset.

Prior to the settlement of the area by English colonists, a hill east of the mouth of the Neponset River near what is now called Squantum was the seat of the ruling Massachusett sachem, or native American leader, Chickatawbut.

It was constructed in 1826 to carry granite from a Quincy quarry to the Neponset River in Milton so that the stone could then be taken by boat to erect the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Quincy shares borders with Boston to the north ( separated by the Neponset River ), Milton to the west, Randolph and Braintree to the south, and Weymouth ( separated by the Fore River ) and Hull ( maritime border between Quincy Bay and Hingham Bay ) to the east.

Historically, before incorporation when it was called " Mount Wollaston " and later as the " North Precinct " of Braintree, Quincy roughly began at the Neponset River in the north and ended at the Fore River in the south.

Principal numbered state highways traveling within Quincy include: Route 3A south to north from Weymouth via Washington Street, Southern Artery, Merrymount Parkway and Hancock Street to the Neponset River Bridge and the Dorchester section of Boston ; Route 28, which travels south to north from Randolph to Milton along Randolph Avenue in Quincy through a remote section of the Blue Hills Reservation ; and Route 53, which enters traveling south to north from Braintree as Quincy Avenue, turning right to form the beginning of Southern Artery in Quincy Point before ending at the intersection with Washington Street / Route 3A.

Quincy Shore Drive travels in a northerly direction along the shore of Quincy Bay through Wollaston and into North Quincy, with much of its length abutting Wollaston Beach, then turns in a westerly direction upon intersecting with East Squantum Street and continues to meet Hancock Street at the Neponset River Bridge.

In 1639, the town dug a canal from the Charles to a nearby brook that drained to the Neponset River.

Norwood is on the Neponset River, which runs all the way to Boston Harbor from Foxborough.

It is drained by the Cochato River and Blue Hill River, which flow into the Neponset River.

Milton is located between the Neponset River and the Blue Hills.

Although Hutchinson's house is gone, Governor Hutchinson's Field, owned by the Trustees of Reservations today is a wide expanse of greenery on Milton Hill, with a view of the Neponset River estuary and the skyscrapers of Boston six miles ( 10 km ) away.

The Granite Railway passed from Quincy to the Neponset River in Milton, beginning in 1826.

The opening of the Neponset River Greenway reconnected Milton with Boston Harbor via Port Norfolk, Dorchester.

The Milton Yacht Club began in 1902, with a small building in the Lower Mills area beside the Neponset River that was formerly the police department for the town of Milton.

Jimmy drove around for a few minutes and then found a spot on the Neponset River where they buried Tommy.

The Neponset River separates Dorchester from Quincy and Milton.

South Dorchester is bordered to the east by Dorchester Bay and to the south by the Neponset River.

It has water access to Boston Harbor through the Neponset Estuary.

Interstate 93 ( which is also Route 3 and U. S. 1 ) runs north-south through Dorchester between Quincy, Massachusetts and downtown Boston, providing access to the eastern edge of Dorchester at Columbia Road, Morrissey Boulevard ( northbound only ), Neponset Circle ( southbound only ), and Granite Avenue ( with additional southbound on-ramps at Freeport Street and from Morrissey Blvd at Neponset ).

Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston operates the Columbia Campus, the Dorchester Central Campus, the Lower Mills Campus, and the Neponset Campus.

From there, the Neponset meanders generally northeast for about to its mouth at Dorchester Bay between Quincy and the Dorchester section of Boston, near the painted gas tank.

In 1845, retired businessman Henry Grew took his family on holiday south of the City of Boston into what was then the western section of Dorchester, and came to a spot near the Neponset River valley with an unexpectedly pleasant view of the Blue Hills.

The Dorchester Turnpike Corporation ( sometimes called the South Boston Turnpike ) was created by the state legislature on March 4, 1805, to build a turnpike from the east end of the Boston South Bridge ( Nook Point ) to Milton Bridge over the Neponset River, on the other side of which the Blue Hill Turnpike later continued.

The Dorchester Avenue Railroad, one of the first street railways in Boston, started operations in 1857, eventually running over the full length ( from downtown to the Neponset River ).

NE 6 may have used Dorchester Avenue south of South Boston, but it is more likely that it turned northwest towards Morton Street just after crossing the Neponset River.

The route finally enters Milton, travels by Curry College, and terminates at Route 28, directly before that route crosses the Neponset River and enters Boston.

Hyde Park has quite an inventory of warehouses and factory buildings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Readville neighborhood and along the Neponset River and Mother Brook.

* In Hyde Park, Washington Street extends approximately seven blocks in the small portion of Hyde Park on the east side of the Neponset River.

Several recommendations of the 1966 Lower Neponset River Reservation Master Plan have been implemented, including the reclamation of the former Hallet Street landfill and the old Neponset Drive-In to provide the Pope John Paul II Park, which opened to the public in 2001.

In 1872, the right-of-way was acquired by the Old Colony Railroad to connect the main line at Harrison Square with the Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad, running from the Old Colony at Neponset, west to what is now Mattapan station.

The Neponset River separates Dorchester from Quincy and Milton.

When the " Assabet " board is combined with the " Neponset " companion processor board they provide support for 32 megabytes of SDRAM in addition to CompactFlash and PCMCIA slots along with an I2S or AC-Link serial audio bus, PS / 2 mouse and trackpad interfaces, a USB host controller and 18 additional GPIO pins.

Neponset River with Granite Avenue in background

After completing his contract with Barnum, he retired to Neponset, Massachusetts, where he died of his illness ( possibly meningitis ) just five days after arriving at the home of his wife and daughter.

It was a, horse-powered railroad, built to move large granite stones from the quarries in Quincy to the Neponset River in Milton.

* Fields Corner-Fields Corner or No. Quincy Station via Neponset Ave. to Adams St.

* Fields Corner-Fields Corner or No. Quincy Station via Adams St. to Neponset Ave.

One of the warriors threatening Wessagusset was Wituwamat, a Neponset who had earlier insulted and threatened Standish.

Neponset is a village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.

Neponset has one gas station that was built within the last decade.

Neponset is located at ( 41. 297222 ,-89. 790246 ).

Soon afterward, the U. S. Post Office was moved to Neponset from Brawby, a hamlet formerly located two miles north of the present village.

The Village of Neponset as a municipality, dates from 1864 when a charter of incorporation was granted by the Illinois General Assembly.

Neponset was named for the Massachusetts hometown of Myron Lee, the railroad's first agent at the Neponset station.

The iPAQ was developed by Compaq based on the SA-1110 " Assabet " and SA-1111 " Neponset " reference boards that were engineered by a StrongARM development group located at Digital Equipment Corporation's Hudson Massachusetts facility.