Canton: Blue Hill, Northwest View
Tucked between the Blue Hills and the Neponset River valley, Canton is a place whose character is shaped by wooded, rocky uplands at Boston’s southern edge. The Blue Hills Reservation extends across the town’s eastern side, preserving a broad tract of forest and trails around its ridges; Great Blue Hill rises immediately to the north. Canton developed as an industrial community on the Neponset, where waterpower supported mills and workshops. In 1801, Paul Revere established a copper-rolling mill here, an enterprise that helped make Canton an early center of American metalworking. Today, established residential neighborhoods meet the open terrain of the Blue Hills.
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Canton is best known within Massachusetts for the Canton Viaduct, a granite railroad bridge completed in 1835 for the Boston and Providence Railroad. The town lies in Norfolk County along the Neponset River, while the Blue Hills Reservation reaches across its northern edge. Built from massive dry-laid granite blocks, the viaduct remains in active rail service and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Canton’s industrial past included water-powered mills; today, its center combines civic buildings, local businesses and rail links to Boston. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of Canton and the Blue Hills.
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