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.

References

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• Local Attachments : The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850 to 1920 (Creating the North American Landscape), by Alexander von Hoffman, The John Hopkins University Press (1996), ISBN 0801853931.
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• Rites of Way: The Politics of Transportation in Boston and the U.S. City (Hardcover), by Alan Lupo, Little Brown & Company (January, 1971), ISBN 0316536709.