Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Jamaica Plain, more commonly known as "JP", is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. It was originally part of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and then part of the town of West Roxbury, Massachusetts when that was established in 1848. West Roxbury (including Jamaica Plain) was annexed to Boston in 1874. According to an official city estimate, it had a population of 38,196 in October, 2003.
Notable Natives
- Emily Greene Balch, co-winner of the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize (130 Prince Street)
- James Michael Curley, four-term mayor of Boston, later governor of Massachusetts (350 Jamaicaway)
- James Dole, founder of Hawaiian Pineapple Company which became Dole Food Company (14 Roanoke Avenue)
- Sylvia Plath, poet (birthplace at 24 Prince Street)
- Ellen Swallow Richards, first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (32 Eliot Street)
- Joey McIntyre, former member of boy band New Kids on the Block, grew up in JP and performed in community theater at The Footlight Club
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