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    Roslindale
    Roslindale
    Roslindale
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    Roslindale

    By Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

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    Once referred to as the "Suburb Superb," Roslindale was at one time part of the town of West Roxbury, which had been set off from Roxbury in 1851. The rapid development of Roslindale, which was annexed to the city of Boston in 1874 and was then known as the South Street District, was largely due to the Boston and Providence Railroad and the streetcars that connected the area to Forest Hills Station. By the twentieth century, Roslindale had developed as a distinctive neighborhood that attracted residents of all walks of life, with dells and valleys reminiscent of Roslin, Scotland, from which it received its name. Roslindale chronicles the growth of this neighborhood from the birth of photography through today by combining vintage images with modern photographs of Roslindale Square, Washington Street, and noteworthy buildings and businesses.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateNov 20, 2003
    ISBN9781439628829
    Roslindale
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    Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

    Anthony Mitchell Sammarco is a noted historian and author of over sixty books on Boston, its neighborhoods and surrounding cities and towns. He lectures widely on the history and development of his native city.

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      Roslindale - Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

      generations.

      INTRODUCTION

      Roslindale was once a part of the town of Roxbury, Massachusetts, which originally extended eight miles west to the Dedham border and included the present-day area of Roslindale and the neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury. In the first two centuries after the town was settled in 1630, the residents of Roxbury were clustered in the area of Meeting House Hill, and the outlying areas to the west were undeveloped and primarily used for farming. The population of Roxbury grew, and in the 1840s, there was a movement for the western neighborhoods to be set off as a separate town. In 1851, the town of West Roxbury was incorporated through the efforts of Arthur Austin and others. In this period, Roslindale was a section of West Roxbury situated between the areas known as Peter’s Hill, Mount Hope, Mount Clarendon, and Mount Bellevue. This new neighborhood, South Street Crossing, was located in the geographic center of town. South Street Crossing took its name from the street crossed by the Boston and Providence Railroad track, which had been laid out in 1834 to connect the two cities. There was a passenger depot known as Roslindale Station at South Street, situated between Bellevue Station and Jamaica Plain. The Boston and Providence Railroad became the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad in the late 19th century. The railroad and horse-drawn streetcars made transportation between Forest Hills and Dedham easy, and after 1909, South Street Crossing rapidly developed.

      In 1874, the town of West Roxbury, including the neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and South Street Crossing, was annexed to the city of Boston. South Street Crossing was eventually renamed Roslindale because its geography was similar to the hills, dells, and valleys of Roslin, Scotland. John Pierce, an English-born resident of the area, made the suggestion for the new name after 1870, when the government established a post office in South Street Crossing. Pierce headed a group of residents who sought a new and engaging name for this rapidly growing neighborhood. Pierce said the area of South Street Crossing reminded him of Roslin, a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, because the rich and romantic landscape of this section of Boston composed so fine a variety of hill and dale, stately trees and profuse shrubbery as to make a similar correlation with the historic town on the Esk River.

      The bucolic and natural beauty of the area was enhanced by Woodlands, the vast estate of Henry Sturgis Grew (1808–1891), which was composed of 800 acres of open land in Roslindale and Hyde Park. Woodlands eventually became known as the Stony Brook Reservation and the George Wright Golf Course, which was designed by Donald Ross. The Stony Brook placidly flowed through Woodlands, and today one can drive through the area on the Enneking Parkway—named for the famous

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