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   Is Roxbury a city?

   • Roxbury (/ ˈrɒksbəri /) is a neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city for neighborhood services coordination. The city states that Roxbury serves as the "heart of Black culture in Boston."

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   Is Roxbury a black neighborhood?

   • Long considered the heart of Black Boston, Roxbury is a diverse and rapidly evolving neighborhood. Field Guide to Boston: Discover — and rediscover — your Boston. It's also the geographic center of Boston, surrounded by the South End, Dorchester, Mattapan, Roslindale, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill, and Fenway.

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   Why is Roxbury a great place to live?

   • It celebrates the culture of the community through visual and performing arts. 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.

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   Why is Roxbury important to Boston's black community?

   • Today, Roxbury’s proximity to downtown Boston, relatively affordable property values and increasing development make it attractive to newcomers. But many residents want to channel this new interest in ways that honor and preserve the neighborhood's importance to Boston's Black community.

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   When did Roxbury become West Roxbury?

   • Part of Roxbury had become the town of West Roxbury on May 24, 1851, and additional land in Roxbury was annexed by Boston in 1860. ^ a b c "Article 89 Urban Agriculture Initiatives Taking Root".

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   Is Roxbury a cultural hub?

   • In the middle decades of the 20th Century, no other area in Boston, except for perhaps downtown, rivaled Roxbury as a bustling commercial and cultural hub. Roxbury celebrates community culture through visual and performance arts at the Roxbury Center and the Museum of the National Center for African-American Artists.

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   Roxbury (/ ˈrɒksbəri /) is a neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. [1] Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city for neighborhood services coordination. The city states that Roxbury serves as the "heart of Black culture in Boston." [2]

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   Responding to the need for increased municipal services, the citizens of Roxbury voted to incorporate as a city in 1846, and later to become annexed to Boston in 1868.

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   Sep 1, 2023 · Long considered the heart of Black Boston, Roxbury is a diverse and rapidly evolving neighborhood. Field Guide to Boston: Discover — and rediscover — your Boston.

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   Roxbury is 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. It is the geographic center of Boston.

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   One of the first towns founded in Massachusetts Bay, Roxbury is located at the geographic center of Boston. Serving as the heart of Black culture in Boston, Roxbury considered seceding from Boston during the late 1980s.

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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.

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   May 18, 2024 · The Town of Roxbury was one of the first towns founded in Massachusetts in 1630. In 1846 it was incorporated as a city. In 1851, the western part of the city, roughly the current neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, and West Roxbury, left Roxbury to become the Town of West Roxbury.