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The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is a linear park located in several Downtown Boston neighborhoods. It consists of landscaped gardens, promenades, plazas, fountains, art, and specialty lighting systems that stretch over one mile through Chinatown, the Financial District, the Waterfront, and North End neighborhoods.
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) was an American philanthropist, socialite, and matriarch of the Kennedy family. She was deeply embedded in the " lace curtain " Irish-American community in Boston.
This stone marks the site of her property, now in the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Zipporah Potter Atkins (July 4, 1645 – January 8, 1705 age 60) was a free African American woman who owned land in colonial Boston , during a time when few women or African Americans owned land in the American Colonies. [ 2 ]
The area is now largely an open plaza at the southern end of the Rose Kennedy Greenway, which features food trucks [6] and a seasonal farmer's market [7] operated by the Boston Public Market. Occupy Boston tent city in Dewey Square, 2011. From September 30 to December 10, 2011, Dewey Square was the site of the Occupy Boston tent city.
Over the years, the compound expanded to include the “Big House,” a 21-room mansion meticulously decorated by Rose Kennedy, and two additional properties acquired by John F. Kennedy and Robert ...
The present-day Artery is almost entirely directed through the newly constructed O'Neill Tunnel, while the original Artery was demolished and replaced with the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, named after the daughter of John F. Fitzgerald and the mother of John F. Kennedy.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library states, “It contains 5 handwritten pages of the Fitzgerald family record, starting with Thomas A. Fitzgerald in 1857.
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.