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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 ]
Event Date Venue Neighborhood Event type Notes Boston Marathon: Patriots' Day: Within the city, predominately on Commonwealth Avenue. (Finish at Copley Square.) Back Bay, Fenway-Kenmore, Allston/Brighton: Marathon: The world's oldest annual marathon, beginning in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, roughly 26 miles west of Boston.
Because of the large number of listings, the list has been split into northern and southern listings, divided by the Massachusetts Turnpike. Two historic districts overlap into both northern and southern Boston: the 1767 Milestones, and the Olmsted Park System.
During the 17th and 18th-century colonial period, the Jamaica Plain area was a predominantly rural agricultural part of Roxbury (then not part of Boston), providing food for Boston. Portions were developed in the latter half of the 18th century as large country summer estates for wealthy Bostonians, including John Hancock , Francis Bernard ...
The House at 17 Cranston Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is an architecturally eclectic and distinctive 12-sided structure, with an unusual combination of Italianate and Gothic features. It was built around 1874 by two Scottish immigrants, and is a distinctive landmark overlooking Hyde Square.
The Jamaica Plain Ice Company employed 350 men in 1874, and harvested as much 5,000 tons of ice a day from Jamaica Pond. [4] The pond was once the site of a popular annual winter skating carnival. In 1929, this carnival was cancelled by Mayor Curley when cracks appeared on the ice, and 50,000 skaters had to be evacuated. [5]
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 ...
Roslindale is a primarily residential neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bordered by Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, West Roxbury and Mattapan.It is served by an MBTA Commuter Rail line, several MBTA bus lines and the MBTA Orange Line in nearby Jamaica Plain.