Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood/town which is 4.4 square miles in Boston Massachusetts. It was originally part of a Roxbury which is another town next to it. In the 19th century, Jamaica plain was one of the first residential communities whose growth and development was strongly shaped in terms of transportation in America and also home to the significant portion of Boston's Emerald Necklace of parks, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted who was an american landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. The population according to the 2010 census was 37,468.The populations has increased from time to time and now the population is 44,896. In 1795 the Jamaica Plain Aqueduct Company received a contract to supply Boston with water from Jamaica Pond, which it did until 1848. |
Stony Brook, which then flowed above ground from Roxbury Crossing to Forest Hills, was another source of power, and the coming of the railroad along more or less the same route encouraged this development further. Even before 1850, the Stony Brook Valley was dotted with textile mills, printing shops, foundries, lumber and stone yards, and breweries. Such industry was, however, clearly subordinate to the area’s great estates. Jamaica Plain got its name from these Indians who came into Roxbury and bought the Jamaica rum saying that “they love jamaica.” The Roxbury residents started to apply the term “Indians place” and the Pond Plain became Jamaica Plain. This was when Indians immigrated to to live in Jamaica Plain when it was part of Roxbury. |
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