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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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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David A. Mittell grew up on Prince Street in Jamaica Plain. He attended the Agassiz School and Roxbury Latin. He is a 1939 graduate of Harvard University. Mr. Mittell is a retired executive of Davenport Peters, the oldest American continually operating lumber wholesaler. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Plimoth Plantation and Roxbury Latin High School.
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The following interview was conducted with Janice Murray by Charlie Rosenberg on April 10, 2004.
My name is Janice Murray. My maiden name was O’Hara. I was born in 1957 in Dorchester, and in 1960, my parents bought a big Victorian up at the corner of St. Rose Street and the Arborway, overlooking the Arboretum – not right at the corner, one house in. The man who built the big Victorians there, his name was Leonard, I believe. It was a huge 17-room house, he built a series of them – if you look along that strip, there are three houses that are almost identical.
This oral history project was complied and edited by Bill Vanderbeck and Jamaica Plain High School students circa 1984 and includes extracts of interviews and historic photographs.
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This is the memorial to Francis Parkman, American historian and summertime Jamaica Plain resident. It was designed by Daniel Chester French and carved partly on site in 1906.
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