About the town » Hamilton, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States

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Hamilton is a rural-suburban town in the eastern central portion of Essex County in eastern Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 7,764. Currently the town has no manufacturing industry and no industrially-zoned land. Its location on the North Shore of Massachusetts provides easy access to the Atlantic seashore with its reservations, beaches and boating. The town includes many historic houses and pastoral landscapes. It also has a rich equestrian heritage, which remains strong due to the influence of the many horse farms and of Myopia Hunt Club, which holds frequent equestrian events, including polo most Sunday afternoons. The visitor to Hamilton may well share the secondary roads with horseback riders. Hamilton is closely tied to its sister town, Wenham, sharing a school system, library, recreation department and commuter rail station. In 2010, the community of Hamilton-Wenham was listed among the "Best Places to Live" by Boston Magazine. Hamilton includes South Hamilton, which is that part of Hamilton that the Postal Service has assigned the zip code 01982. "Hamilton" and "South Hamilton" are indistinguishable from each other except for the difference in zip codes.