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    Roxbury
    Roxbury
    Roxbury
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    Roxbury

    By Anthony Mitchell Sammarco and Charlie Rosenberg

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    Roxbury, annexed to Boston in 1867, has seen tremendous change as a result of land development and a shifting population. Today Roxbury is a streetcar suburb of the city and a thriving nexus of cultures, religions, and races.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateApr 18, 2007
    ISBN9781439634530
    Roxbury
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    Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

    Anthony Mitchell Sammarco is a noted historian and author of over sixty books on Boston, its neighborhoods and surrounding cities and towns. He lectures widely on the history and development of his native city.

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      Roxbury - Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

      Boston.

      INTRODUCTION

      Roxbury is a historic neighborhood of the city of Boston, settled in 1630 by a group of Puritans seeking to establish a new community that extolled the virtues and freedom of religion they felt was lacking in England at that time. They named their new town Roxbury due to the prevalent outcroppings of rocky puddingstone that dotted the landscape and often made farming an arduous task. However, Roxbury also has a great claim to fame in that the first Bible to be printed in North America was translated from English into the Native American tongue in the town.

      The Reverend John Eliot (1604–1690), a graduate of Oxford and settled minister of the Roxbury Meeting House from 1632 to 1690, became fluent in the native tongue of the Massachusetts Indians and translated the King James version of the Bible into their native tongue in 1663; the result was two generations of Praying Indians, who heeded the word of the Christian God and who followed the teachings of Eliot and his followers. This occurrence was to bring great renown to the small settlement from throughout New England as well as England, and it is still remembered over three centuries later as an important example of the determination and benevolence of the Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay Colony.

      Throughout the first two centuries after its settlement, Roxbury was primarily an agrarian town with residences and shops along the early streets now known as Dudley, Centre, Roxbury, Warren, and Washington Streets and in Jamaica End and Westerly, which are today the Boston neighborhoods known as Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury. The town center has been at Meeting House Hill, now known as John Eliot Square, where the first meetinghouse was built in 1632. This measured pace in society was to change in the early 19th century with manufacturing becoming an increasingly important part of the economy. Clock making, tanneries, fruit orchards, a rubber factory, lithographers, building concerns, as well as the brewing of beer along the Stony Brook River, brought great prosperity and renown to Roxbury, and as a result, the population steadily increased to support these new industries. By the early 1820s, the town was serviced by an omnibus that ran hourly to Boston, and in 1835, the Boston and Providence Railroad was laid through Roxbury, providing additional development. The ease of transportation allowed residents of Roxbury the mobility necessary to commute to Boston, and by the beginning of the 20th century, Roxbury was a web of streetcar lines that connected it to all parts of the city.

      The annexation of Roxbury to the City of Boston in 1867 (effective January 6, 1868) was an important factor in its development. A city in its own right since 1846, it now became a neighborhood of Boston and was to be known as Boston Highlands. During the period between 1868 and 1900, new streets were laid out by the city and numerous houses were built as the population increased steadily. From what was basically a Yankee town prior to the Civil War, the diversity became evident with immigrants arriving from western Europe, most

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