In 1845, Daniel Bacon, a retired China trade captain from Barnstable, bought some of Prince's land and the next year built a mansion behind the present 156 Prince Street.
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Reprinted extracts from the 1812-54 diaries of our Brookline neighbor, Benjamin Goddard (1766-1861). He was one of the 15 children in the fourth generation of the family raised on the Goddard Farm,
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The Old Curtis Homestead was conveniently located near Stony Brook on Lamartine and Paul Gore Streets, a stone's throw from the Boylston Street railroad depot, where it stood from 1638 to 1887 as Jamaica Plain's oldest home for 250 years.
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A formal bench with central shaft, from which emerges a forest Indian, erected by friends of Francis Parkman in 1906, marks the approximate site of Mr. Parkman’s home, called “Sunnyside” and its accompanying gardens between Prince Street and the northwest corner of Jamaica Pond.
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General Sumner was born on the auspicious evening of July 4, 1780, in the homestead in Roxbury by the corner of Washington and Sumner streets. He later developed many areas of Boston, including the Sumner Hill area in Jamaica Plain.
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Anyone interested in our local history soon comes upon Harriet Manning Whitcomb’s Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain, published in 61 pages at Cambridge in 1897.
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A series of essays about Walter Marx, one of the founders of the Jamaica Plain Historical Society - written by those who knew him on the 10th anniversary of his death.
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Five different Mayors have called Jamaica Plain home. Here is an article about them.
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John Albion Andrew, two-term Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, saw the state through the Civil War while pushing for the formation of all-Black regiments in the Union Army.
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One of the most frequently asked questions of the Jamaica Plain Historical Society concerns the location of John Hancock's house in our area. This article answers that question.
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Many different men rode out as news of the British marching into the countryside to seize colonial arms reached Roxbury-raised Dr. Joseph Warren after dark on April 18, including one from Jamaica Plain.
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Mayor Curley was a lifelong Democrat, but his distancing himself from Al Smith of New York when Smith sought the presidential nomination for a second time in 1931 is well known, though he had heartily supported Smith in his bid against Herbert Hoover in 1928.
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