An 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 More
The 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 More
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.
Read More
Five different Mayors have called Jamaica Plain home. Here is an article about them.
Read More
This Jamaica Plain memoir is part of a longer memoir covering the greater part of Richard’s life.
Read More
Mike 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 More
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.
Read More
A synopsis of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail tour of Jamaica Plain. Download a version and take the tour yourself!
Read More
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.
Read More
Reminiscenses of the final months of the Rascal King himself, James Michael Curley and a discussion of his legacy in Boston.
Read More
Th\rying to make since of why Mayor Curley (or anyone else) would go to such lengths over a license plate.
Read More
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.
Read More