William Richardson, Edmund P. Tileston, Asaph Churchill, Jonathan Ware, and Mark Hollingsworth joined to form the Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad on April 16, 1846.
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The Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad was a branch line off the Old Colony Railroad main line from Boston to Plymouth. The 3.3 mile road was completed on Dec. 1, 1847 from Neponset Village in Dorchester, through the town of Milton, to the village of Mattapan.
“Said company may locate, construct, and maintain a railroad, with one or more tracks, within the towns of Dorchester and Milton, in the county of Norfolk, commencing at the most convenient point, at or near the depot of the Old Colony Railroad, at Neponset Village, so called, in Dorchester, and thence running, on the most eligible route, through the southeasterly art of the town of Dorchester, to a point eastwardly of the road leading from Dorchester to Milton, over Milton Hill, then crossing Neponset river, and thence running through the northerly part of the town of Milton, to some convenient point in Dorchester or Milton, at or near the Upper Mills, so called.” (Private and Special Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, from January 1838 to May 1848). Volume 8. (Boston, 1848), 645.
In 1929, the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line opened from Ashmont to Milton, using a portion of the former Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad.