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    Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of 4.4 square miles (11 km2) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south...
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    Dorchester) Downtown East Boston Fenway-Kenmore (includes Longwood) Hyde Park Jamaica Plain Mattapan Mission Hill North End Roslindale Roxbury South Boston South...
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    Boston designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. The pond and park are in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, close to the border of Brookline. It is the...
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  • changing for Jamaica Plain. Kendall is on what is now the Red Line (the lines were not color-coded until 1965), so his "change for Jamaica Plain" would have...
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    Sylvia Plath (category People from Jamaica Plain)
    Warren was born. In 1936 the family moved from 24 Prince Street in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to 92 Johnson Avenue, Winthrop, Massachusetts. Plath's...
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    Jamaica (/dʒəˈmeɪkə/ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square...
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  • town Jamaica, Virginia Jamaica Beach, Texas Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts Jamaica, Cuba, Guantánamo Province Jamaica, Mayabeque Mercado Jamaica, Mexico...
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    Jamaica Plain High School is a defunct four-year public high school that served students in ninth through twelfth grades in the Boston neighborhood of...
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    light rail vehicles). Horsecar service on Centre and South streets in Jamaica Plain began in 1857, followed by service on Tremont Street (part of which...
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    30, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2015. "Native Americans in Jamaica Plain". Jamaica Plains Historical Society. April 10, 2005. Archived from the original...
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    Emsworth, where the oyster beds had been contaminated with raw sewage. Jamaica Plain neighborhood, Boston in 1908 – linked to milk delivery. See history...
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    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...
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    residential neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bordered by Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, West Roxbury and Mattapan. It is served by an MBTA Commuter...
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    serves the MBTA's Orange Line and is located in the southern part of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Green Street is the least-used station on the Orange Line...
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    Haffenreffer Brewery (category Jamaica Plain, Boston)
    The Haffenreffer Brewery, established in 1870, was a former brewer in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The first Haffenreffer bottles were plate mold bottles...
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    botanical research institution and free public park, located in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in...
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    The First Church of Jamaica Plain is a historic church at 6 Eliot Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The stone Gothic...
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  • running from Readville, north through Roslindale, Forest Hills and Jamaica Plain, where it would have met the also-cancelled I-695 (Inner Belt Expressway)...
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    (43 mi) through the largest of these plains. The Rio Minho is 92.8 km long and is the longest river in Jamaica (previously, the Black River was thought...
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    also was held annually at historic Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Sponsored by Forest Hills Educational Trust and the folkloric...
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  • Massachusetts. She is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery & Crematory in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts. Sexton is seen as the modern model of the confessional...
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    three-decker houses. Areas such as Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, and Jamaica Plain were popular with the emerging middle class and became "streetcar suburbs"...
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    Roxbury, but the two are separated from each other by Roslindale and Jamaica Plain. Before 1630, the area was inhabited by the Wampanoag Indian Tribe....
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    Crossing, proceeds along the Boston–Brookline border, then curves into Jamaica Plain. At the south border of Arnold Arboretum, at the point most distant...
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    Boston's neighborhoods: Brighton, Allston, Fenway–Kenmore, Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, and West Roxbury. The city of Newton lies to the west of Brookline...
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    2016. Mark B. (May 28, 2008). "Charles Ponzi – The Jamaica Plain Connection". Remember Jamaica Plain?. Retrieved July 16, 2013. "Ponzi Arrested.", The...
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  • J.P. Licks (category Jamaica Plain, Boston)
    scones, and bagels. J.P. Licks pays homage to its hometown and location, Jamaica Plain, a Boston neighborhood colloquially referred to as "J.P.” Vincent Petryk...
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    21, 30, 31, 32, 34, 34E, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 50, 51) Boston/Jamaica Plain Link Gilman Square   Green Line (E)   MBTA bus (80) Somerville Link...
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    completed along the I-95 right of way through the neighborhoods of Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, the South End and Roslindale, which led to secession threats by Hyde...
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    feet (2,100 m2). Jamaica Plain Connolly Branch, 433 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain. "Library service to the Hyde Square area of Jamaica Plain began in 1897...
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