Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States

Industry

🇺🇸 Roxbury is a neighborhood within the city of Boston, Massachusetts. 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". Roxbury was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 before being annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868. The original boundaries of the Town of Roxbury can be found in Drake's History of Roxbury and its noted Personages. Those boundaries include the modern day Longwood, Mission Hill, and Symphony neighborhoods, including the Christian Science Center, the Prudential Center (built on the old Roxbury Railroad Yards), and everything south and east of the Muddy River, including Symphony Hall, Northeastern University, Boston Latin School, Madison Park Technical Vocational High School John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics & Science, Roxbury Community College YMCA, Harvard Medical School, and many hospitals and schools in the area. This side of the Muddy River is Roxbury, the other side is Brookline and Boston. Franklin Park, once entirely within Roxbury when Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury and Roslindale were villages within the town of Roxbury until 1854, has been divided with the line between Jamaica Plain and Roxbury located in the vicinity of Peter Parley Road on Walnut Avenue, through the park to Columbia Road. Here, Walnut Avenue changes its name to Sigourney Street, indicating the area is now Jamaica Plain. One side of Columbia Road is Roxbury, the other Dorchester. Melnea Cass Boulevard is located approximately over the Roxbury Canal that brought boats into Roxbury, bypassing the busy port of Boston in the 1830s.

The neighbourhood has also formed community gardens and developed the first urban farm of the city in accordance to the adoption of article 89, Urban Agricultural Ordinance, which provides framework for creating community resources for fresh produce, to be sold at low cost, and also to be donated to programs who help feed those who are in shelters or other care facilities alike. There are also many emergency response facilities who help underprivileged people in the area, such as youth centres, and social service centers. When it was a separate municipality, Roxbury was in Suffolk County until it was added to the newly created Norfolk County in 1793; when it was incorporated into Boston, it returned to Suffolk County.

Industry In the 1600s, most people were farming or living off the land. In the 1700s mills and tanneries made up the main industry of Roxbury, but by the 1800s breweries, piano makers, iron foundries and rubber makers provided employment for a growing Roxbury population. By the turn of the 20th century, the area was a bustling mix of department stores, hotels, silent movie theaters, banks—even a bowling alley—designed by prominent Boston architects in a rich mixture of revival styles. As the marshes were filled in, factories and warehouses took their place. Nowadays, most spaces are used for office or retail stores since the community holds an emphasis on keeping jobs within the neighborhood and promoting jobs for youth.

Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States 
<b>Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States</b>
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Roxbury has a population of over 59,626 people. Roxbury also forms one of the centres of the Greater Boston metropolitan area which has a population of over 4,875,390 people.

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Antipodal to Roxbury is: 108.917,-42.317

Locations Near: Roxbury -71.0833,42.3167

🇺🇸 Dorchester -71.072,42.292 d: 2.9  

🇺🇸 Boston -71.05,42.35 d: 4.6  

🇺🇸 Brookline -71.125,42.34 d: 4.3  

🇺🇸 Cambridge -71.1,42.367 d: 5.7  

🇺🇸 Somerville -71.1,42.383 d: 7.5  

🇺🇸 Chelsea -71.033,42.394 d: 9.5  

🇺🇸 Medford -71.113,42.418 d: 11.5  

🇺🇸 Quincy -71,42.25 d: 10.1  

🇺🇸 Malden -71.062,42.428 d: 12.5  

🇺🇸 Revere -71,42.4 d: 11.5  

Antipodal to: Roxbury 108.917,-42.317

🇦🇺 Bunbury 115.637,-33.327 d: 18855.2  

🇦🇺 Albany 117.867,-35.017 d: 18892.7  

🇦🇺 Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 18772.9  

🇦🇺 Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 18747  

🇦🇺 City of Cockburn 115.833,-32.167 d: 18732.2  

🇦🇺 Perth 115.857,-31.953 d: 18709.9  

🇦🇺 Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 18709.1  

🇦🇺 Guildford 115.973,-31.9 d: 18699.8  

🇦🇺 Midland 116.01,-31.888 d: 18697  

🇦🇺 Wanneroo 115.803,-31.747 d: 18691.5  

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