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Getting to Know Your Neighborhood: Roxbury - Boston

Updated: Nov 14, 2020

Named for its rocky soil and the resources the land had to offer, Roxbury is full of

history and was home to major populations of Irish, Latvian and Jewish communities

and in the early 1900s a prominent black community began to form.


This community-built Roxbury into its modern-day form, with