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Crawford Street is located in southern Roxbury, extending west from Warren Street. Its easternmost block was originally part of the Elm Hill country estate, and was subdivided for development in the 1870s. During this period, Roxbury (annexed to Boston in 1868) experienced rapid growth as a streetcar suburb.
Fort Hill is home to the First Church in Roxbury, which, gathered in 1631, was the sixth church founded in New England. [5] The Church has had five different meeting houses at its site at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Centre Street, with the current dwelling, built in 1803, still standing today as the oldest wooden frame church building in Boston.
Roxbury High Fort is a historic fort site on Beech Glen Street at Fort Avenue in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The site now contains a small park and the Cochituate Standpipe, also known as Fort Hill Tower, built in 1869. The fort site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
It is the largest public library literacy center in the Boston Public Library system. The Grove Hall Branch of the Boston Public Library, which was formerly located on Crawford Street since 1971, is now located at 41 Geneva Avenue in Dorchester/Roxbury. The Branch is in a new facility that opened in April 2009. [75]
About a decade after the end of the American Revolution, Roxbury incorporated as a town in October 1796. Roxbury is either descriptively named, or the name is a transfer from Roxbury, Massachusetts. [4] Mine Hill and its minerals have been associated with Roxbury since the middle of the 18th century.
The smallest town in Cheshire County, Roxbury was incorporated in 1812 from portions of Nelson, Marlborough, and Keene. By then, settlers had established agriculture among the rolling hillsides in the area, and a community had developed at what is now called Roxbury Center. It was a "hill farm" community with some scattered small mills.
The legendary actor, 88, and his wife, Sybille Szaggars Redford, bought the tranquil Tiburon home in 2020 for $3.1 million
Roxbury is a township in southwestern Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [18] As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 22,950, [9] [10] a decrease of 374 (−1.6%) from the 2010 census count of 23,324, [19] [20] which in turn reflected a decline of 559 (−2.3%) from the 23,883 counted in the 2000 census. [21]