Melrose is a city located in the Greater Boston city in Middlesex Region, Massachusetts, USA. Its population according to the 2010 USA Demographics is 26,983. It is a residential area situated roughly 7 miles north of Boston and is located in the center of the triangle produced by Interstates 93, 95 and also U.S. Path 1.

The land that consists of Melrose was first worked out in 1628 and also was once part of Charlestown and afterwards Malden. It came to be the Community of Melrose in 1850 and then the City of Melrose in 1900.

Melrose lies at 42 ° 27 ′ 33 ″ N 71 ° 3 ′ 44 ″ W( 42.459045, − 71.062339)

. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a complete location of 4.8 square miles (12 km2), of which 4.7 square miles (12 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2), or 1.26%, is water. The city’s biggest body of water is Ell Pond, located near the facility of the city, while other significant bodies are Swains Fish pond and Towners Fish pond, situated on the eastern side near Mount Hood Golf Club.

Melrose MA. is approximately 7 miles (11 km) north of Boston, Massachusetts. It borders 4 cities and communities: Malden, Saugus, Stoneham, and also Wakefield. Major geographical features consist of Ell Pond, Swains Fish Pond, Sewall Woods, Mount Hood, Boston Rock, Pine Banks Park, as well as the eastern reaches of the Middlesex Fells Reservation.

The writer Elizabeth George Speare, who was birthed in Melrose, created of her home town: “Melrose was an ideal place in which to have matured, close to areas as well as timbers where we treked and also picnicked, and close to Boston where we often had family deals with of cinemas and performances.”

The Melrose Institution area runs several institutions including The Franklin Early Youth Facility, five grade schools (Roosevelt, Lincoln, Winthrop, Hoover, and also Horace Mann), Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School (MVMMS), as well as Melrose Senior High School. The city additionally has a personal grade school, St. Mary of the Annunciation, run by among the city’s Catholic churches of the very same name. The Franklin Early Youth Center residences preschool, pre-k as well as multiage programs. MVMMS is institution to about one thousand eleven- through fourteen-year-olds and also was the champion of the 2002 Massachusetts Division of Education’s Compass School Award, the 2007 Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s Green Institution Award (for its use solar energy), as well as the 2008 New England Organization of Center Schools’ Limelight College Honor.