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    Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain
    Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain
    Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain
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    Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain

    By Harriet Manning Whitcomb

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain

      By Harriet Manning Whitcomb

      Cambridge

      1897

      This sketch was prepared by request to be read before the Jamaica Plain Ladies' Tuesday Club. Subsequently a desire was expressed to have it put in a more permanent form and offered for sale at a Fair for the Jamaica Plain Indian Association. Although personally reluctant to appear before the public in this way, I have allowed my desire to aid a good cause and give pleasure to my friends who have kindly received my paper to influence me in its publication.

      I am indebted to The Memorial History of Boston to Drake's Town of Roxbury, to Dr. Thomas Gray's Half-Century Sermon, and to the memory of a few of the older residents for some dates and incidents given.

      If any of these should prove to be inaccurate, I must rely upon the charity and courtesy of my readers for only indulgent criticism.H.M.W.

      ANNALS AND REMINISCENCES OF JAMAICA PLAINTo collect and review the circumstances and events which have made our homes and those of our ancestors for many generations is more than a pleasant service. We find an interest and fascination in every step of the way, leading us, as it does, into one of the most delightful portions of our country, and introducing us to not a few of the most refined and cultivated, as well as distinguished people of New England.

      There is ever a charm about old-fashioned people and places, as about old books and pictures, antique furniture and china; they affect us by the very contrast they afford with ourselves and our surroundings, even though it is with a touch of pathos and sadness.

      Long years ago a much-traveled man, who knew the country well, said, Jamaica Plain is the Eden of America. He was not a Bostonian, and our village was still a part of Roxbury, so that the suggestion of conceit and boasting over this small portion of the Hub could not be imputed to him.

      It has often seemed to us that the loving, favoring smile of heaven rested peculiarly upon our plain, environed as it is by gently rising hills, which, with their robes of verdure and noble trees, shelter it from harsh winds, and hold it in the warmth and freedom of a pure health-giving atmosphere. Our charming lake, covering more than sixty-five acres, nestles like a gem in its western borders, mirroring forms and colors, all of beauty, and holds upon its banks some of the most delightful of our homes.

      In early days it gave of its clear, soft waters for the needs of

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