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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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   Why was Roxbury important during the Siege of Boston?

   • Roxbury’s location and high hills made the town strategically important during the Siege of Boston, in 1775-1776. After the battles of Lexington and Concord, the colonists chased the British back to Boston and then encircled Boston from Cambridge to Roxbury. The British were trapped in Boston for almost a year.

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   What is Roxbury known for?

   • St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, the first Catholic Church in Roxbury (with a predominantly Irish congregation) was built in 1846. In the 20th century, Irish dance halls proliferated on Dudley Street, which became a mecca for Irish dancing. One of these, Hibernian Hall, built in 1913, is now the Roxbury Center of the Arts.

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   Is Roxbury a black neighborhood?

   • We’re bringing this historic neighborhood into the 21st century. 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 a great place to live?

   • Throughout the mid-20th century and continuing to this day, Roxbury became the center of African American culture in Boston. The district has strong ties to jazz (Roy Haynes, Makanda Ken McIntyre) and early leaders of the civil rights movement (Malcolm X, Rev. James Breeden, and Melnea Cass).

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   What was Roxbury like in the 19th century?

   • As Roxbury developed in the 19th century, the northern part became an industrial town with a large community of English, Irish, and German immigrants and their descendants, while the majority of the town remained agricultural and saw the development of some of the first streetcar suburbs in the United States.

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2. www.bostonmagazine.com › property › roxburySo You Want to Live in Roxbury - Boston Magazine

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   Roxbury is filled with lush community gardens, bustling green spaces like Malcolm X Park, where summer basketball tournaments are veritable family reunions, and Highland Park, with its landmark...

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   Roxbury’s location and high hills made the town strategically important during the Siege of Boston, in 1775-1776. After the battles of Lexington and Concord, the colonists chased the British back to Boston and then encircled Boston from Cambridge to Roxbury. The British were trapped in Boston for almost a year.

4. www.bbc.com › travel › articleThe town that couldn’t contain Marilyn Monroe - BBC

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   Feb 28, 2022 · With little more than a clerk’s office, a small market and gas station, tiny Roxbury, Connecticut was an unlikely home for one of the world’s biggest movie stars.

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5. www.baystatebanner.com › 2018/06/15 › a-briefA brief history of the founding and development of Roxbury

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   Jun 15, 2018 · Founded in 1630, Roxbury was once a suburban village famous for its rich soil, flowers and fruit trees. One of the only towns in the English Colonies not named after an English town, Roxbury was named for its puddingstone — a conglomerate of sedimentary rock that reminded the colonists of pudding.

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   Roxbury is the geographic center of Boston. This mass of land, one of the first towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and originally named Roxborough (an English place name that goes back to the Latin word rex or king), holds a fertile history that includes the First People, early English settlers (the Colonists John Ruggles, John Eliot ...

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   Roxbury (/ ˈ r ɒ k s b ər i /) 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."

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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.