Belmont tourist information
Belmont California
Belmont is a city located in San Mateo County, California. It is a relatively small suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area, located about half-way down the San Francisco Peninsula between San Mateo and San Carlos. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 25,123.
Belmont is mostly made up of residential housing and retail stores. During the 1990s housing demand (and prices) increased dramatically, in large part due to the growth of the nearby headquarters of Oracle Corporation.
The Town of Belmont is a pleasant, residential suburb which has unexpectedly achieved international notoriety as the childhood home of the bride of the Crown Prince of Japan. Residents report polite but persistent Japanese tourists knocking on likely doors hoping to discover the Princess's former house, and international tour guides persist in planning tours of the affluent community.
Before the Prince found his Cinderella, Belmont was a quiet community on the western suburban corridor of Boston, situated on the divide between the watersheds of the Charles and the Mystic Rivers. The town was largely agricultural until the early 19th century when the turnpike and railroad linked the area to Boston, stimulating the creation of several large suburban estates. Although there were extensive market gardens in Belmont, the town underwent rapid subdivision development when trolley routes connected it directly to Boston. A Belmont farmer was the first to import and breed Holstein cows, and historians note that the conservatories on an estate in Belmont sparked the first use of hothouses to grow fruit and vegetables commercially. This was done so successfully that huge Belmont market gardens under glass produced enough fruit to make the town first in the country in the value of its fruit products and second in the country for vegetables during some years in the 19th century.
A small town of about 4.6 square miles, Belmont residents are proud of their quiet, well-mannered community and appear unexcited by its present fame.
Eastern Massachusetts, bordered by Arlington on the north, Cambridge on the east, Watertown on the south, Waltham on the west, and Lexington on the northwest. Belmont is 7 miles northwest of Boston, 21 miles south of Lowell, 40 miles southeast of Fitchburg, and 220 miles from New York City.
This northern Grand Rapids suburb is set among rolling, wooded hills -- ideal terrain for world-class golf courses. Intersected by the Rogue River, the area also features the closest campground and paddlesport livery to the city.
Beautiful architecture and full-grown magnolia, lilac, and dogwood trees are a testament to the rich history of Belmont. The town's oldest home, featuring a well-preserved interior, is an antebellum structure built in 1870. Owing much to the textile mill owners of yesteryear, stately mansions grace the main road of town, while recently renovated "mill houses" can be found in surrounding areas.
Belmont traces its heritage to the early 1870's when the Southern Railway built its first track through the area. A watering stop along the line acquired the name "Garibaldi" after John Garibaldi, who built a water pump tower at the location in 1871. The train stop came to be known as Garibaldi Station, or "Baldy," until 1886 when the name was changed to Belmont upon the recommendation of Bishop Leo Haid of the nearby Benedictine Monastery. In 1895, by act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, Belmont became an incorporated town.
by City of Belmont North Carolina
Belmont
Belmont, with a population of just over 6,000, sits in the southern half of the Lakes Region and consists of about 32 square miles of land. Once a part of Gilmanton, Belmont was separated and named as an independent town in 1869. For the modern day visitor, Belmont is home to several fine restaurants as well as the ever popular Lakes Region Greyhound Park.
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