History of Middleton, Massachusetts, USA

Middleton, Massachusetts
Essex county. A pleasant town on both sides of Ipswich river, 19 Miles N. from Boston and 7 N.W. from Salem. This place contains a large and expensive paper mill. This is the principal manufacturing concern in the town. Incorporated, 1728. Population, 1837, 671.

Part of Middleton once belonged to Salem, and it may have been named because it was formed from the corners of several towns, of which it was a sort of centre.

The inhabitants chiefly get their support from the soil, which is by no means productive.

Distance from Salem, 7 miles ; from Boston, 20.

Middleton, a post-township of Essex co., Massachusetts, intersected by the Essex railroad, 19 miles N. from Boston. Population, 852.

Middleton is a small and pleasant town situated on the western border of Essex County, 19 miles north of Boston, on the Lawrence Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad. It is bounded on the north by North Andover and Boxford, east by Danvers and Topsfield, south by the latter, Peabody and Lynnfield, and west by North Reading. The assessed area is 8,295 acres, of which 1,871 are forest, consisting of oak, maple, birch and pine.

The Ipswich River, flowing southeast, then northeast, forms the southern line of the larger part of the town, then flows northward through the eastern section, and passing the centre, turns again and leaves the town on the northeast side, at the angle known as the "Disputed Territory." Boston Brook, from North Andover, enters it at the northern bend, and nearer the centre it receives a stream from Swan Pond in the edge of North Reading; and on this are two or more saw mills. Potts' Pond is on this stream, with Will's Hill on the south between it and...

Middleton, a post-village of Essex co., Mass., in Middleton township, on the Lawrence Branch of the Eastern Railroad, 10 miles N.W. of Salem, and 18 or 19 miles N. of Boston. It has a church, a shoe-factory, a tannery, &c. Pop. of the township, 1092.

Middleton, a post-village of Essex co., Mass., in Middleton township (town), on the Boston and Maine R., 10 miles NW. of Salem. It has electric-works. Pop. of the town in 1900, 839.