“The story of Belmont begins in the 1630s, when a group of Englishmen ventured up the River Charles to an area now called Fresh Pond, settling there on land occupied by the Pequosette Native Americans and know as Pequosette Plantation. In search of good soil, those men were rewarded with abundant crops, which could be carried from field to market on horseback. The colony thrived despite the increasing discontent with its
