In the Victorian era Jamaica Plains' 200 acre Moss Hill was also known as Bowditch Hill, named for one branch of the Bowditch family of Salem fame, who lived there. Grandfather Jonathan Bowditch brought his family to Moss Hill in the mid-19th century.
Read MoreAn old Jamaica Plain homestead is best known by the name of the former estate, over which it once presided: Pinebank, so called from its pine-surrounded rise on the north shore of Jamaica Pond.
Read MorePinebank, the decaying, abandoned mansion overlooking Jamaica Pond, will be gone by the end of the month. Its existence spanned three centuries. Failed attempts to preserve it spanned three decades.
Read MoreFounded in 1908, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish was exactly half way to its 100th Anniversary in 1958, when I was privileged to graduate from its school.
Read MoreThe establishment of the Jamaica Plain Historical Society in 1987 provided our area with a means of sometimes getting local questions about our past conveniently answered. An inquiry this summer focused attention on the several streets in Jamaica Plain that are named after saints: John, Joseph, Mark, Peter, and Rose.
Read MoreThe National Register of Historic Places is the nation's official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation. The text below is excerpted from the registration form submitted to the National Park Service in 1987. The nomination form is dated April 1985; revised June 1986.
Read MoreThere really is an actually brook, here's the details on the Stony Brook and its history.
Read MoreA big change in the women’s shoe retail trade of Boston takes place Oct 1 – the agency of the famous Queen Quality Shoes will be controlled by C. F. Hovey & Co., 33 Summer St. This concern took up the Queen Quality Agency, which necessitated the enlargement of the shoe department, only after making an exhaustive study of the Thomas G. Plant Company factory at Jamaica Plain.
Read MorePictures taken on the scene could hardly do justice to the immense force of the fire in one area, which under other weather conditions could have been a disaster.
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