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Roxbury, southern residential section of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Prior to becoming part of the city of Boston in 1868, it was a town (township) of Norfolk county, located between Boston and Dorchester.
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May 24, 2024 · This former farming community is home to the Shirley Eustis House. It’s the nation’s only remaining country house that a British Royal Colonial Governor built. Today, Roxbury is the heart of Black culture in Boston.
Colonial Roxbury. In 1630, ten years after the Pilgrims established Plymouth, a group of English Puritans, led by John Winthrop, landed slightly farther north and founded Massachusetts Bay Colony with headquarters in Boston. With coastal Native American populations decimated from disease brought to them by earlier fishermen, traders, explorers ...
Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. It became a city in 1848 and was annexed to Boston in 1868. The original town of Roxbury once included the current Boston neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury, Mission Hill and much of Back Bay.
Roxbury is a neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Mar 10, 2021 · Roxbury is now known as the center of African American culture in Boston and New England. The district has strong ties to jazz, as well as early leaders of the civil rights movement.
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