Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of 4.4 square miles (11 km 2 ) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Founded by Boston Puritan looking for farmland in the south, it was originally part of the town of Roxbury. The Community broke away from Roxbury as part of the new town of West Roxbury in 1851, and became part of Boston when West Roxbury annexed to Boston in 1874. In the 19th century, Jamaica Plain became one of the first suburbs in America and home to most of the Emerald Necklace in Boston, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. According to the 2010 Census, it has a population of 37,468.
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Shortly after the founding of Boston and Roxbury in 1630, the William Heath family and three others settled on the ground just south of Parker Hill in what is now Jamaica Plain. In the next few years, William Curtis, John May and others set up a farm near Stony Brook, which flows from south to north from Turtle Pond (in Hyde Park) to an outlet in the swamp of the Charles River in the currently filled Fens. Boston area. John Polley followed him with a farm he purchased from Lieutenant Joshua Hewe in 1659 at the site of the current Warrior Monument at the intersection of the South and Central roads, closer to the "Great Pool", which became known as Jamaica Pond. Then, for the services provided during the Pequot War, Joseph Weld received a 278 acre (1.1Ã, km 2 ) grant between South Street and Center Street. His son John then built a house along South Street in what is now Arnold Arboretum, and his descendants have continued to live in the area for many generations.
At the end of the 17th century, the name "Jamaica" first appeared for the Roxbury region between Stony Brook and Great Pond. There are a number of theories about the origin of the name "Jamaica Plain". A well-known theory traces its origins to "Jamaica rum", a reference to the role of Canadian sugar cane in the Triangle Trading of sugar, rum, and slaves. However, a more likely explanation is that "Jamaica" is an Anglicization of the name Kuchamakin, who is the regent for the young Chickatawbut, the sachem (chief) of the Massachusett tribe.
On some maps, until the mid-19th century, the area was marked as "Jamaica Plains".
John Ruggles and Hugh Thomas donated the land in 1676 for the construction of the community's first school. A gift of 75 acres (30 ha) of land to the south of the "Big Pool" by John Eliot provides financial support for the school, which is named after the Eliot School (which still exists) in his honor.
During the 18th century, farming the Jamaican part of Roxbury shifted from subsistence to market orientation, serving Boston's population growth. At the same time, the rich buy land and build plantations in rural villages. In 1740, Benjamin Faneuil, the niece of the Boston merchant Peter Faneuil, bought land between Center Street and Stony Brook. In 1752, Commodore Joshua Loring bought Polley's old farm and built the house where he retired. In Jamaica Pond, the provincial governor, Francis Bernard, built a 60-hectare summer house (240,000 m 2 ). In 1775, troops from Rhode Island and Connecticut for miles with the inhabitants of Jamaica Plain. General Washington places troops at Weld Hill, Bussey Hill today at Arnold Arboretum. The units are protecting the road south to Dedham (Center Street), where the American arsenal is kept, in case the British break the Boston siege.
With the American Revolution, many Tory planters escaped from the country, and were replaced by the rising elite in new Boston. In 1777, John Hancock bought a land near the pond. The widow of Ann Doane bought the land formerly owned by Loyalist Joshua Loring (who still stands, as the Loring-Greenough House). He married again, with attorney David S. Greenough. When Samuel Adams became governor of Massachusetts, he bought Peacock's previous shop at the Center and Allandale, near Faulkner Hospital. With his wealth made in the Chinese trade, James Perkins built his home, Pinebank, overlooking the Jamaican Pool in 1802. In the 1780s, the community built its first church, the Third Parish in Roxbury (now Jamaican Jamaican Society) across from the Loring-Greenough House. It is a white-walled board structure that does not exist today.
Revolution to annexation
The early years of the 19th century continued the trend of post-Independence years. The water channel was built into Boston and the inner part of Roxbury by the Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Corporation, which provided water to Boston, Roxbury and then West Roxbury Town, from 1795 to 1886. The carriages took people to Roxbury and Boston on Center Street (then, Dedham), and in 1806 on the new highway Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike (now Washington Street). In 1826, "hours" ran from Jamaica Plain to Roxbury and Boston on a regular schedule, and in 1830 brought a larger "omnibus" to carry an ever-increasing passenger base. The first railway line reached Jamaica Plain in 1834 when Boston and Providence Rail Road began operating, with a special low-cost "commuter" tariff offered by residents in 1839. Stopped at Boylston Street and Tollgate (now Forest Hills) joined the station on Green Road over requests of local residents.
Green Street, laid out in 1836 to connect Center Street and Toll Street, (Washington Street) to the center of local artisans and builders. Soon after, Center Street near Green Street became a major retail street, with local wholesalers attracting local businesses providing products from West Indies and ordinary household items. During the 1840s, as a commuter from Boston settled in Jamaica Plain, the local market grew, with artisans and businesses - with owners living in the community - providing much needed products and services. In the Stony Brook valley along the railroads adjacent to Roxbury, a small industrial center is formed, with small chemical factories, tannery and soap manufacturers taking advantage of running water, insulation, access to transportation, and available land. Reflecting population growth, a number of new churches were built. Four churches open and serve a new, more varied population.
In 1850, the agricultural community once had a significant change in its population. Only 10% of registered household heads are farmers, while 28% are entrepreneurs and professionals, and another 20% are born in Ireland. In an effort to stem the increase in property taxes to support the Roxbury area in the rapidly urbanized, the large plantation owners in Jamaica Plain led a successful effort in 1851 to secede from Roxbury and form the new suburb of West Roxbury. Meanwhile, growth continues. In 1850, David S. Greenough developed the southern end of his family's land into four roads, including McBride Street today. Three years later, he sold the land along the east side of the railway for the new Gas Plain Light Company. In 1857, the new West Roxbury Railroad Company extended their horse-drawn carriage to a depot on South Street, on the site of a public housing project today across from McBride Street.
During the same years, the ice houses lined the southern coast of Jamaica Pond. Ice is harvested every winter by Jamaica Plain Ice Company and sold in Boston and beyond until the 1890s, when Boston City bought a pond. Continuing the development of transport services serving Jamaica Plain commuters and encouraging further urban development, Boston and Providence companies added the second track in 1860, the third in 1870, and the fourth in 1890. Many of the new residents were Irish and Catholic, and to serve their needs, the Boston Archdiocese began the construction of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in South Street, with grammar schools following in 1873. In less than a generation, Jamaica Plain has changed significantly, and wealthy landowners no longer hold power. In 1873, residents of West Roxbury - mostly living in Jamaica Plain - voted in favor of annexation to Boston. The city of West Roxbury has grown from 2,700 inhabitants in 1850 to 9,000 in 1875, and many of the new residents want to benefit from the services (road grazing, sewer) that Boston City can provide.
Boston neighborhood establishment
When Jamaica Plain became part of Boston, the growth rate continued to increase. The three-story house, the decisive image in urban New England architecture, first appeared in the 1870s, and spread rapidly in the 1890s. In Jamaica Plain, the first commercial block was built in the 1870s, with the first commercial brick building set up in 1875. In 1873, a magnificent brick police station was built on Seavern's Avenue, and a year later the newly-built Eliot School was renamed West Roxbury High School, only to be converted to Jamaica Plain High School after the annexation. The Stony Brook Valley has long been the center of the Jamaica Plain industry. In 1871, the Haffenreffer beer factory opened near Boylston and Amory Streets, utilizing the Stony Brook aquifer and the presence of German immigrants in the area. That same year, the Boylston Schul Verein social club opened across the railroad tracks, one of many organizations serving Germans in the neighborhood. To the south, Stacyevant B.F. opened an industrial fan factory in 1878 along railroads between Williams and Green Street, which grew by employing 500 employees. In 1901, the factory suffered a major fire and the company moved to Hyde Park a few miles to the south.
The continuous movement of both residents and businesses into the Stony Brook valley brings calls to collect rivers, prevent floods, and provide sewerage. During the 1870s, the river was deepened and contained within a wooden wall, but the melting of the spring caused flooding in the surrounding streets, and new efforts. The work continued until 1908, when the river was placed in a shallow culvert from Forest Hills to its current outlet at Boston Fens, behind the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the following years, the tributaries that once defined the heart of the Jamaican Plain industry were largely forgotten, until immortalized by the new Stony Brook Orange Line station on Boylston Street.
The brewery continues to be a great company during these years. At Heath Street, the Highland Spring Brewery has been in operation since 1867. In the 1880s, the Eblana and Park and American Brewing Company factories opened, taking advantage of local German and Irish immigrants to fill jobs. Franklin Brewery expands the cutting district to Washington Street. These factories and other factories are all covered for brewing during Prohibition, and only a few survive to reopen after being lifted, although many find other uses, and some still survive. The exception was Haffenreffer, which continued until 1964. The old building is now home to a number of commercial companies, including the Boston Beer Company, beer brewer Samuel Adams. The dead victim was Croft Ale, which was brewed in the Highland Spring Brewery until 1953, when it became Rosoff Pickle's factory, where pickles can be seen from passing commuter trains.
A prominent company that moved to Heath Street after the ban was the Moxie soft drink company. Invented by Augustin Thompson at Lowell Massachusetts in 1876, the company marketed Moxie with a distinctive flavor to divert it from "tonic" to soft drinks, such as Coca-Cola, and replace it with Coke in 1920. The company stopped advertising their distinctive products during the Great Depression , and never recover their lost market share. After the factory closed in 1953, the building was torn down by the City of Boston for Bromley Heath's new public housing project.
During the late 19th century, residential housing Jamaica Plain grew with commercial development, providing homes for workers in local businesses and commuters as well. Sumner Hill, based on the old Greenough estate, is home to owners and business managers. In the 1880s, the estate of Parley Vale and Robinwood Avenue was developed to serve the same market. Ten years later, Moss Hill Road and Woodland Road are laid out on land owned by the Bowditch family, creating the most exclusive environment in Jamaica Plain to this day. At the same time, the land on South Street is being developed into streets and filled with homes for working class people, especially Irish people. At the beginning of the 20th century, roads in Plain Jamaica were filled, and homes or businesses were in most of the plots that could be built. All of the housing supplies of Jamaica Plain have been owned, divided, financed, built and sold largely by the residents of Jamaica Plain.
The beginning of the 20th century
The year 1900 brought another big company to Jamaica Plain when Thomas Gustave Plant built a factory for Queen's Quarterly Shoe Company at the Center and Bickford Streets, said to be the largest women's shoe factory in the world at the time, with five thousand workers. To avoid a common labor dispute at the time, the company offered a park next to the factory, recreation room, gym, library, ballroom, and sponsored sports teams that competed in the local league. Shoes continued to be built in the building until the 1950s, but burning burned a massive brick structure in 1976. The site is now home to supermarkets.
In 1900, Jamaica Plain had a significant immigrant population, which helped shape the future of the community. Many Irish people have settled in large numbers on Heath Street Street, South Street, Forest Hills and Stony Brook (Brookside), taking labor and domestic work, and being a quarter of the population. Germany has reached 14%, living in Hyde Square, Egleston Square and Brookside, working as a skilled worker and manager, with their own social club and church. Canadians, many from the Maritime Province, make up 12% of the population, often working with white-collar or skilled jobs. The Italians will also come, in the years after 1910. The new technology allows local businesses to provide jobs into the new century. In the 1910s, the Randall-Faichney Company produced auto parts, and the Holtzer-Cabot Company moved from making electric motors and telephone switching equipment to adding electric cars.
Religion has played an important role in local life during these years. The increase in Catholic population resulted in the construction of new churches to join St. Thomas Aquinas. Our Lady of Lourdes was built in 1896 at Brookside, and the Blessed Sacrament, was built to serve the residents of Hyde Square, completed in 1917. St Andrews on the Walk Hill road in Forest Hills came shortly thereafter. Each church has an elementary school that anchors parishes and fosters strong allegiance in the parish, and in 1927, the parish of St. Thomas added a secondary school, which remained open until 1975. Protestant churches inspired similar local allegiances. Many local plant managers are assigned to leadership positions in nearby churches. The Church of the Congregation Center has groups of women, children and missions that bring neighbors from different economic classes together.
Other civil associations bring people from Jamaica Plain together. In 1897, the Jamaican Plains Carnival Association was formed to manage and promote parades, contests and fireworks in July. Two years later, the Plain Plain Entrepreneur Association was formed to promote commercial development. Within three years, prominent community members were invited to join the newly named Jamaican Nation Association. The new group works to encourage road improvements, playgrounds, lectures, schools, and other community facilities. In 1897, the Club Tuesday was formed for women (not accepted to other groups), and still at Loring Greenough's home.
At the end of the 19th century, the Emerald Necklace in Boston was designed and built by Frederick Law Olmsted, with most of the southern part of the park connecting or bordering Jamaica Plain. Olmsted Park, Jamaica Pond, Arnold Arboretum, and Franklin Park have been enjoyed by generations of Jamaica Plain residents. The pond had long been the location of the plantation, which was torn down to create a new park. Fishing and ice skating are popular hobbies, and every winter ice is moved from the pond before the cooling time of electricity. With new parks, houses and commercial ice houses have been removed. Arboretum developed on land originally owned by the Weld family, and donated by Benjamin Bussey, with financial support from the will of James Arnold. The Arboretum is now owned by the City of Boston, and is managed by Harvard University.
Probably the most dramatic building project in the history of Jamaica Plain is the height of the train line above the class in the 1890s. To avoid accidents at the crossings, the embankment was built from Roxbury south through Forest Hills station, with bridges on all the roads that intersect. The dikes cut most of the Jamaican plains from north to south. Later, housing along the embankment became worthless, and the property to the east of the train line was cut off from the higher-income segment of society.
Activation Redlining, Reject and Environment
In the early 1970s, the city of Boston planned to extend the I-95 from northern Canton to downtown Boston. It threatened to take I-95 straight through the center of Jamaica Plain, basically dividing the community into half if executed. Many protests along with support from residents of Jamaica Plain, Roxbury and Hyde Park, unite to stop the construction of highways, including the now-annual community festival, called "Bangun Bumi," which mobilizes residents from the surrounding environment as opposed to toll roads. This project has destroyed many homes and commercial buildings on the highway before that - Governor Francis W. Sargent ordered to stop interstate projects. New in the 1980s the Southwest Corridor was built, creating a parking path, bike path, and venue for the future Wake Up The Earth festival instead of the highway, now located above the underground Orange Line.
In 1970, Central Jamaican Plain was considered in a state of decline. Southwest Corridor Intrusion coupled with and possibly contributed to the decision by Boston banks to reduce mortgage lending there began a disinvestment cycle that led to worsening housing stocks, slumlording and neglect especially in the central environment along the edge of the corridor. In some cases, homeowners who can not sell due to lack of buyer financing just walk away from older homes along the edge of the corridor. Urban Edge, founded as a nonprofit real estate company in 1974, felt the need to hire volunteer tenants to physically own an empty property to prevent vandalism and arson. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the average life span of an abandoned building is about a week. The windows were broken, the copper pipes were stripped, and the buildings were burned.
After conducting a research project documenting the dramatic decline in mortgage lending between 1968 and 1972, the activists launched the Jamaica Plain Community Investment Plan . The plan asks local residents to promise to move their savings accounts to local agencies that will guarantee to invest the money in a mortgage in Jamaica Plain. The plan finally produced a promise of five hundred thousand dollars. In 1975 the contract was signed with the Jamaica Plain Cooperative Bank to implement the Community Investment plan.
In 1974, the community rallied and under the protection of an Alinsky-style organizing project funded by the Ecumenical Social Action Committee (ESAC), a coalition of local churches contracted with the organization of the Rhode Island-based community, Richard W. Wise, environmental groups and coalition leaders into the Jamaican Jamaican Police Banking and Mortgage Committee and working with groups from other Boston neighborhoods, leveraging it into the city's Anti-Redlining Coalition (BARC) coalition, Coalition, headed by Edwina's longtime activist "Winky" Cloherty, created a unique and ultimately successful campaign to force Boston Banks to disclose their lending patterns and the "Greenlining campaign" to stimulate residential investment in the environment. as well as to publish and stop redlining.
In October 1974, the committee also managed to secure a pledge from candidate Governor Michael Dukakis to request that the leased state banks disclose their loan patterns annually by zip code. After his election, ignoring the threat of litigation by the bank, Dukakis kept his promise. On May 16, 1975, the new Banking Commissioner, Carol S. Greenwald, issued the first state pawn ruling regulation in the United States. Subsequent research based on data obtained by bank commissioners indicates that there is indeed a pattern of disinvestment in the central environment of Jamaica.. Later that year, The Jamaica Plain Banking & amp; The Mortgage Committee together with the city's Anti-Redang Coalition (BARC) in the city is part of a coalition, under the leadership of the Chicago-based National People's Action, which plays a part in the Federal Federal Mortgage Disclosure Act 1975
In subsequent years, real estate prices stabilized, mortgage money became available and the Southwest Corridor Coalition was a locally-split community task force and assisted by state officials, drafting a comprehensive master plan for rebuilding corridors. They decided to move the elevated railway line on Washington Street and replace it with a line below the line along the railroad tracks. With a new transit line in place after an old train embankment, the Southwest Corridor park was built from Forest Hills north through the old Stony Brook valley.
Changes to the transit service via Jamaica Plain followed by changes to the tram route as well. The Arborway Line, which has been in operation since 1903, has long been considered to be replaced by a bus service by the transport authority. In 1977, a trolley service on the Arborway line from downtown Boston was stopped at Heath Street, with buses going to Forest Hills. The service continued, but was cut again in the 1980s, and has not continued since then. This decision has been challenged by a group of citizens in Jamaica Plain in court, and is still in dispute.
Urban update
Coalition Efforts of Southwest Corridor, Jamaica Plain Banking & amp; The anti-regression efforts of the State-owned Credit Committee along with the revitalization efforts led by the Urban side did very well. In the 1980s, low rents brought many students to the area, especially those attending the School of Museums, Mass Art, and Northeastern University, who often lived in collective households. This environment also developed a lesbian and gay community. The presence of artists in the neighborhood led to the opening of local galleries and bookstores, and art centers such as Jamaica's Plain Art Center, which shared space in City of Boston Firehouse emptied with Brueggers Bagel Company for several years. This site is currently the JP Licks ice cream shop. Many home buyers were first able to buy homes and condominium prices in Jamaica Plain over the years.
In the mid-1980s, an important musical scene developed in Jamaica Plain that continues to this day. Revitalization continued in the 1990s. Nonprofit housing groups buy slums and vacant land to create low-income rental units. During the same year, the former Factory Shoe Factory was rebuilt as JP Plaza, a mall, and then a supermarket. The new facility for Martha Eliot Health Center completed the rebuilding of the site. As part of the city's efforts, the Boston Main Streets district is named (Hyde/Jackson Square, Egleston Square, and Center/South), bringing city funds and environmental revitalization tools to local business owners.
Today
At the turn of the 21st century, the environment has attracted large communities of college-educated professionals, political activists and artists.
Hyde, Jackson, and Egleston Squares have significant Spanish-speaking populations mainly from the Dominican Republic, but also from Puerto Rico and Cuba. In 2010, Jamaica Plain's ethnic makeup was 38% Non-Hispanic White, 33% Hispanic or Latino, 20% Non-Hispanic Black or African-American, 6% Asian-American, 3% Others.
By 2016, the neighborhood between Jackson Square and Hyde Square was officially designated "Latin Quarter" by the city of Boston, after years of informal recognition by residents, Latin activists, and local politicians. This area has a large number of Latino-owned businesses and residents, and is the center of local festivals, churches and activist groups, such as La PiÃÆ' Â ± ata, Ã,¡Viva! el Latin Quarter project of Hyde Square Task Force, and near Vida Urbana. The El Mundo newspaper is headquartered in Hyde Square.
The elimination of redlining and stabilization of the real estate market in the late 1970s and the redevelopment of the Southwest Corridor set the stage for gentrification that began in the 1990s. The hot real estate market has driven a dramatic increase in the value of older homes in Parkside, Pondside and Sumner Hill areas as well as the conversion of some larger residential properties and older commercial buildings into condominia. Many previously vacant structures are converted into housing use, including ABC Brewery, Gormley Funeral Home, Eblana Brewery, Oliver Ditson Company, 319 Center Street, Jackson Square, JP Cohousing, Blessed Sacrament, Our Lady of the Way, and 80 Bickford Street.
The oldest community theater in the US, Footlight Club, is located in this neighborhood.
Maps Jamaica Plain
Geography
Sub-environments
Jamaica Plain consists of a number of different historical districts. Some names are now ancient, used less by the old inhabitants than scholars and real estate agents.
- Brookside: roughly limited by Boylston Street, Green Street, Washington Street, and Southwest Corridor Park
- Egleston Square: crossing Columbus Avenue and Washington Street on the border between Jamaica Plain and Roxbury
- Forest Hills: roughly restricted by Arborway, Morton Street, Walk Hill Street, South Street, and Forest Hills Cemetery
- Hyde Square: area around the intersection of Center Street, Day Street, and Perkins Street, stretching east along Center Street to Roxbury
- Jackson Square: Columbus Avenue junction and Center Street. Orange Line MBTA station site.
- Jamaica Hills: northwest of Arnold Arboretum, including Moss Hill and Green Hill
- Parkside: roughly bordered by Washington Street, Egleston Square, Morton Street, and Franklin Park
- Pondside: roughly limited by Center Street, Perkins Street, and the Jamaicaway
- South Road: follows the path named on both sides of the Monument to Forest Hills.
- Stonybrook: with active environmental associations, documented boundaries begin at southwestern Rockvale Circle on Washington Street which include Burnett Street on McBride Street, cutting south-east across MBTA bus pages to Lotus Street, and northeast until Forest Hills Street returns to the Rockvale Circle./li>
- Sumner Hill: roughly bordered by Seaverns Avenue, Everett Street, Sedgwick Street, and Newbern Street
- Sunnyside: roughly limited by Center Street, Day Street, Round Hill Street, and Gay Head Street
- Monument: Overlaps with Pondside above, an area around the intersection of the Center and South Streets.
- Woodbourne: south of Forest Hills, bordered by Walk Hill Road, Goodway Road, and Wachusett Road
- White City: no longer recognizable; its territory includes parts of Hyde Park Ave and a few specific blocks now considered part of Woodbourne
Green space
Jamaica Plain, often referred to in the 19th century as "Eden of America," [1] is one of the greenest neighborhoods in the city of Boston. This community contains or is limited by a number of gems of the Emerald Necklace garden system designed in the 19th century by Frederick Law Olmsted:
- Olmsted Park: from Route 9 on Riverway south to Perkins Street, including Leverett Pond, Willow Pond, and Ward's Pond
- Jamaica Pond: has 60 acres (240,000 m 2 ) of surface area and is Boston's largest and deepest freshwater body Arnold Arboretum: is a collection of world-renowned crops of 265 acres (1.1Ã, km 2 ) managed by Harvard University, and contains Peters' Hill, named by Boston Mayor Andrew J. Peters, elevation highest in Jamaica Plain at 235 feet (72 m). Franklin Park is a 527-acre park (the largest in town) and has the Franklin Park Zoo (New Zealand's largest zoo), the White Stadium and William J. Devine Memorial Golf Course.
These gardens are connected by parkways, each of which is also part of the Emerald Necklace. From south to north this is the Arborway, Jamaicaway, and Riverway.
Forest Hills Cemetery, a 275 acre park cemetery (1.1 km km), and hundreds of acres of funerals stretching along Walk Hill Street offer more green space to the area.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Students in Jamaica Plain are served by Boston Public Schools (BPS). BPS assigns students based on applicant's preferences and student priorities in different zones. The British High School located in Jamaica Plain is one of the first public high schools in America.
The Roman Catholic archdiocese in Boston operates Roman Catholic schools. In the spring of 2009, the archdiocese announced that Our Lady of Lourdes School, K-8 school and the last Catholic school in Jamaica Plain, will be closed unless parents collect $ 500,000 for an additional year of teaching. In the spring of 2009 the school had 187 students, of which 30 students were fewer than in 2005.
Private schools in the area include the British School of Boston and SHOWA.
Transportation
Jamaica Plain is served by bus and train services from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA).
The main streets are Center Street, the Jamaicaway (formerly US 1), the Arborway (MA 203), Washington Street, South Street, and South Huntington Avenue.
Public transport
The Green Line E "B" tram service ends on Heath Street and South Huntington Avenue. The bus service continues along South Huntington Avenue, Center Street, and South Street to its terminal at Forest Hills Station. The Orange Line fast train line runs below street level through the central part of Jamaica Plain, with stops at Jackson Square, Stony Brook, Green Street and Forest Hills. Buses connect Jamaica Plain with Roslindale, West Roxbury, Hyde Park, and suburban Dedham, Westwood and Walpole to the south, and all of Boston with road routes. Forest Hills Station is a major transportation hub and is within walking distance of Arnold Arboretum and Forest Hills Cemetery.
The "E" "while" was suspended from Heath Street to Forest Hills in the mid-1980s, but the proposal to restore the service has caused tension in the area. Some residents and commuters want branch restoration, which is seen as reconnecting with other parts of the city. However, others state that bus # 39 is along the old route, and the Orange Line is just a few blocks away, doubling the extension.
Rail commuting
The Needham line from Commuter Train stops at Forest Hills Station, and many other easily accessible trains are boarding Orange Line subway trains to Ruggles and Back Bay.
Car and parking
The city's parking lot is located on Center Street on Burroughs Street in the Jamaica Plain Center, opposite Mary Curley School on Center Street on Spring Park Ave., and opposite the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Hyde Square. There are several meters of parking at Jamaica Plain; free on-street parking. Many streets near the MBTA Orange Trail station are posted "stay permits" during business hours (8 am to 6 pm). This is intended to prevent commuters from using residential streets as parking spaces during the day.
Bicycle path
Two main bike trails serve Jamaica Plain. Along the Southwest Corridor Park is the Pierre Lallement Bicycle Path, which runs from Forest Hills to Back Bay. To the west is the bike path, which crosses the Necklace Garden gardens, along Jamaicaway and Riverway.
Famous people
- Robert Bacon (1860-1919), United States Secretary of State
- Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961), Nobel Peace Prize laureate, founder of the International League for Women for Peace and Liberty
- Harold Hitz Burton (1888-1964), Mayor of Cleveland, US Senator Ohio and Supreme Court Justice
- John F. Collins (1919-1995), Boston Mayor
- James Michael Curley (1874-1958), Boston Mayor, Governor of Massachusetts, and US Representative
- James Dole (1877-1958), industrialist American pineapple Hawaiian industry, founder of the current Dole Food Company
- Ruby Foo (1904-1950), owner of the restaurant
- Diane Guerrero (born 1986), actress
- William Heath (1737-1814), peasant, political leader, Major General of the Continental Army
- Joshua Loring (1716-1781), British Navy officer, Loyalist
- Joey McIntyre (born 1972), actor and singer
- Malcolm Nichols (1876-1951), last Mayor of the Republic of Boston to date
- Francis Parkman (1823-1892), historian
- Andrew James Peters (1872-1938), Country Representative, Boston Mayor at Boston Police Strike
- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), poet, novelist, and short story writer
- Gary Provost (1944-1995), author
- Maurice Joseph Tobin (1901-1953), Boston Mayor, Governor of Massachusetts, United States Labor Minister
- Babe Twombly (1896-1974), Outside Major League Baseball player
- William F. Wharton (1847-1919), Assistant Secretary of State
References
Note
Further reading
External links
- Official website
- Jamaica Plain Historical Society records, 1855-2015, University Archives and Special Collections, Joseph P. Healey Library, Boston University of Boston
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