Boston has always been a city that prides itself on its social reform ideals, and Jamaica Plain has played its part as well. But few would think that Jamaica Plain played any part in the militant reform movement in the Midwest one hundred years ago. Yet America's leading writer of the farming frontier, Hamlin Garland, wrote his very first stories from an attic room in JP.
Read MoreAnyone 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.
Read MoreHenry Keaveney is a rich repository of old-time JP history who worked in the composing room of the Boston Globe for 41 years.
Read MoreHorace Parker Chandler was a publisher of poetry and law books, Boston real estate and mortgage broker, journalist, friend and advocate of all seamen, photographer, newspaper and magazine correspondent who resided in Jamaica Plain for 50 years.
Read MoreAn old house was built on Centre Street in 1797 under classical influence, and was the home of Horatio Greenough. It was called “Lakeville,” and its site has given one local street a name.
Read MoreThe story of Ignatius Sargent who was a banker, railroad investor and owned an estate on the Jamaica Pond called Holm Lea (from the Norwegian/Swedish for ‘Inland Island Pasture').
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreFive different Mayors have called Jamaica Plain home. Here is an article about them.
Read MoreThis Jamaica Plain memoir is part of a longer memoir covering the greater part of Richard’s life.
Read MoreMike McCormack remembers his youth living at 120 McBride Street, Jamaica Plain and says "I will always cherish that time and that era in Jamaica Plain".
Read MorePatrick J. McManus, who lives at 28 Egleston St., Jamaica Plain, and is one of the best- known Irishmen in the city, has had a bond of the Irish Republic issued in 1866 carefully preserved in his home for years.
Read MoreA synopsis of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail tour of Jamaica Plain. Download a version and take the tour yourself!
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