Braintree, including the section that broke off to become Quincy, has produced some of the most notable figures in American history. John and Abigail Adams John Adams was born in 1735 to Henry a… ...

The Braintree Historical Society owns four properties in total The French House, 766 Washington St., which was first built in 1699 and became the town’s first post office and home of the town ...

In his history of Braintree, John Dennehy wrote that Thayer built the house in 1835 "near the 1640 home site of his ancestor Thomas Thayer." The year 1640 was when Braintree was incorporated as a ...

BRAINTREE – Visitors were transported back in time on a walking tour of the Elm Street Cemetery on Sunday afternoon as part of the town’s 375th anniversary celebration.