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Newton is one of those Massachusetts cities that still lets you feel its earlier life if you know where to look. The streets are busy, the train stations are full of commuters, and the housing stock ranges from compact village-era homes to larger suburban properties built in waves across the 20th century. Yet beneath the polished streetscapes and tree-lined neighborhoods sits an older story, one shaped by mill villages, rail lines, hillside development, and the kind of buil