The application of the Jamaica Club, the leading social club of Jamaica Plain, for a club license to sell liquor has caused excitement in that section among the temperance organizations and churches. Boston Globe article from 1897.
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The Boylston Schul-Verein was granted its charter by the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on September 17, 1874. This official date of incorporation was preceded by an initiative of a number of citizens of German descent living in the Boylston Station section of Jamaica Plain to found a club in 1871.
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The Jamaica Plain Friendly Society was a public charity incorporated in 1901 and had offices on the second floor of the Curtis Hall municipal building in Jamaica Plain. The Society provided relief to the poor by providing home work sewing garments.
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