Roxbury Neighborhood - Boston, Massachusetts - One of the First Towns in the Colony

Roxbury is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It was one of the first towns founded in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1630, and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on 5 January 1868. The original town of Roxbury once included current Boston neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, West Roxbury, South End, and much of Back Bay. Roxbury now generally ends at Columbus Avenue to the north and Lenox Street to the east.

Roxbury is now one of the 21 officers in the neighborhoods of Boston, used by the city for the coordination of neighborhood services. The city claims that "serves as the heart of Black culture in Boston."

Of the original boundaries of the town of Roxbury can be found in Drake's history of Roxbury and took note of his characters. These limits are the Christian Science Center, the Prudential Center (built on the former rail yard in Roxbury) and the entire south and east of the Muddy River including Symphony Hall, Northeastern University, YMCA, Harvard Medical School and many hospitals and Schools in the area. This side of the Muddy River is Roxbury; the other side is Brookline and Boston. Franklin Park, once fully in Roxbury, where Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury and Roslindale were villages within the town of Roxbury until 1854, has divided the line between Roxbury and Jamaica Plain located in the vicinity of Peter Parley Road at Walnut Avenue, through the Columbia street park. Here, Walnut Avenue changes its name to Sigourney Street, indicating the area is now Jamaica Plain. One side of Columbia Street Roxbury the other is Dorchester. Melnea Cass Boulevard is located approximately in the channel that ships Roxbury in Roxbury since bypassing the busy port of Boston in the 1830s.

A store known as the Blue Tent, at the intersection of Washington and Warren Street in Dudley since 1699. Many remember the furniture store known as Ferdinand's Blue Store, as the elevated train in two parts of the building. This area was also home to several famous Boston business firms, Hardware W. Bowman Cutter store with its head down sign, Timothy Smith's Department Store, and JS Waterman and Sons, funeral directors for many prominent families in Boston.

Roxbury neighborhood remains a mostly African-Americans as it has been since 1960, but there is a growing population of Puerto Rico. In 1987, Nelson Merced, a Puerto Rican, was chosen for the fifth district of Suffolk in Boston. From the 2000 census Roxbury was 5% non-Hispanic whites, 63% non-Hispanic black or Black, 24% Hispanic or Latino may be of any race, 1% from Asia and Latin, 3% from other races and 4% from two or more races.

Students at Roxbury are served by the Boston Public Schools (BPS). BPS assigns students based on applicants' preferences and priorities of students in different areas. Roxbury is home to Roxbury Community College. The Eastern Nazarene College offers courses for adults / classes lead in Roxbury. Roxbury Preparatory Charter School is a charter school that serves at 6.8 degrees on Mission Hill in Roxbury, MA. Roxbury High School was once located on Greenville Avenue.