Patrick 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.
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A synopsis of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail tour of Jamaica Plain. Download a version and take the tour yourself!
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This article is from the April 2008 edition of the Newsletter of The Roxbury Latin School and is used with their permission. James Drummond Dole, the subject of the article that follows was the son of the Rev. Charles Fletcher Dole (1845-1927). The Dole family home stands at 14 Roanoke Street.
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Reminiscenses of the final months of the Rascal King himself, James Michael Curley and a discussion of his legacy in Boston.
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Th\rying to make since of why Mayor Curley (or anyone else) would go to such lengths over a license plate.
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Jimmy McHugh, the great songwriter was a Jamaica Plain native who never forgot his family back at home even when he was hobnobbing with the movie stars out in Hollywood.
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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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Tyrannical, temperamental, handsome, and avant-garde, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, lived in Jamaica Plain at the beginning of his American career.
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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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Almost a hundred years before women were allowed to enter Harvard Medical School, Marie Zakrzewska started medical school in 1854 in Ohio and then became internationally famous for her work here in Boston.
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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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