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Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of 4.4 square miles (11 km 2) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of Roxbury . The community seceded from Roxbury during the formation of West Roxbury in 1851 and became part of Boston when West Roxbury was annexed in 1874. [ 1 ]
The Sumner Hill Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area of high-quality late 19th-century residences in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is roughly bounded by Seaverns Avenue, Everett Street, Carolina Avenue, and Newbern Street just east of the neighborhoods commercial Centre Street area.
Monument Square Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district north of Monument Square in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The 43 acres (17 ha) district is bounded on the northwest by Pond Street, the northeast by Myrtle and Pond Streets, the southeast by Centre Street (excluding the commercial properties on Centre Street itself), and Holbrook and ...
Jamaica Plain: 123: Lower Roxbury Historic District: Lower Roxbury Historic District: December 9, 1994 : Roughly the area surrounding Coventry, Cunard, and Walpole Sts. Roxbury: 124: Massachusetts Historical Society Building
In the state of Massachusetts, there are over 4,300 listings, representing about 5% of all NRHP listings nationwide and the second-most of any U.S. state, behind only New York. Listings appear in all 14 Massachusetts counties.
White City was not an all-White area of Jamaica Plain. Jamaica Plain was always a diverse section of the City of Boston, as was made obvious by the diversity of Jamaica Plain High School, the most integrated school in the City of Boston in the late 1950s. White City Cleansers was renamed around 2003; its sign was the last prominent reminder of ...
ACT UP/Boston [111] and Jamaica Plain Historical Society [176] founded. Back Bay (MBTA station) rebuilt. Partners In Health nonprofit headquartered in city. Joseph P. Kennedy II becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district. Hamersley's Bistro in business. [177] 1988 City of Boston Archives and City Year established.
The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, Boston, MA. Semi-centennial Anniversary of the English High School, May 2, 1871. Robert Cassie Waterston, Editor. Boston: Printed for the English High School Association, 1871; Annual Report of the School Committee of Boston, Boston, MA, 1820–1821.