Bolton is in central Massachusetts, located 25 miles west-northwest of downtown Boston along Interstate 495.

[2] Settled in the 1600s and incorporated in 1738, the town is still home to many farms and apple orchards, along with the well-known Nashoba Valley Winery[3] and The International Golf Club, which has hosted several major tournaments.

[6] Prior to its incorporation, the area was settled by English farmers in the 1600s near where the Nashaway tribe fished and farmed along the Nashua River.

[11] By 1711 more than 150 people were living on Bolton soil, despite a local history of Indian uprisings and one massacre during King Philip's War.

During the American Revolution Bolton farmers erected a liberty pole at the town center and largely supported the revolutionary cause.

General John Whitcomb of Bolton was elected the first Major-General of the Massachusetts Army at the third Provincial Congress in 1775.

Lovecraft's fiction: as a setting in his Herbert West—Reanimator, and also mentioned in his The Rats in the Walls and The Colour out of Space.

Bolton is a member of the Nashoba Regional School District, also serving the towns of Lancaster and Stow.