Roxbury (/ˈrɒksbəri/) is a neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and one of 23 official...
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West Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bordered by Roslindale to the northeast, the village of Chestnut Hill and the town...
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The Roxbury Latin School (informally known as RL) is a private, college-preparatory all-boys day school located in West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts. Founded...
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Roxbury was the head of the municipal government in Roxbury, Massachusetts. There was no Mayor of Roxbury until 1846 because up to that point Roxbury...
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a town Roxbury, Kansas, an unincorporated community Roxbury, Maine, a town Roxbury, Boston, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts Roxbury, New Hampshire...
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underlying most of Roxbury, Massachusetts, now part of the city of Boston. The bedrock formation extends well beyond the limits of Roxbury, underlying part or...
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Forest Hills Cemetery (category 1848 establishments in Massachusetts)
Boston, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established in 1848 as a public municipal cemetery for Roxbury, Massachusetts, but was privatized when Roxbury was...
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Roxbury Community College (RCC) is a public community college in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. RCC offers associate degrees in arts...
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Ronnie DeVoe (category Rappers from Massachusetts)
Edition, and the R&B/hip hop group Bell Biv DeVoe. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. DeVoe was the second-to-last member to join New Edition (Johnny...
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Whitey Bulger (category Burials at St. Joseph Cemetery (West Roxbury, Massachusetts))
an Irish Mob group in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled...
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John F. Fitzgerald (category Burials at St. Joseph Cemetery (West Roxbury, Massachusetts))
final rest from Holy Cross Cathedral to St. Joseph Cemetery in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, a crowd of thousands gathered along the streets and sang "Sweet...
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Fenway campus, Emmanuel operates a living and learning campus in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The Emmanuel College Administration Building was built in 1919...
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Michael Beach (category People from Roxbury, Boston)
Parker, and as T.O. Cross in FX's Sons of Anarchy. Beach was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on October 30, 1963. He graduated from Juilliard School with a degree...
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John Eliot (missionary) (category English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony)
called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. In 1660 he completed the enormous...
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YouthBuild (category Non-profit organizations based in Massachusetts)
programs underway in over 15 countries. The headquarters are in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The YouthBuild program has five components: construction, education...
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Boston area, but for family reasons accepted a pastorate at West Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1837. At first, he found the location less than stimulating...
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Edward McLaughlin (gangster) (category People murdered in Massachusetts)
at the Spring Street Metropolitan Transit Authority Loop in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. English, T. J. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American...
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Catholic Memorial School (redirect from Catholic Memorial High School (West Roxbury, Massachusetts))
all-boys college preparatory school (grades 7–12) located in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of...
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incorporated as a town in October 1796. Roxbury is either descriptively named, or the name is a transfer from Roxbury, Massachusetts. Mine Hill and its minerals have...
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in 2000. The youngest of eleven children, Bell was born in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in the Orchard Park Projects. He began his career...
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a Zombie (1943), Ruthless (1948) and Jane Eyre (1943). Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Barrett was the daughter of Marshall S. P. Williams and Edith Barrett...
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Kevin White (politician) (category Burials at St. Joseph Cemetery (West Roxbury, Massachusetts))
the requirements of the Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Act. Ultimately, among the Boston districts most affected were West Roxbury, Roslindale, Hyde Park...
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Orchard Park Projects (category Roxbury, Boston)
was one of Boston's most notorious housing projects, located in Roxbury, Massachusetts. It is also the former home of singer Bobby Brown and New Edition...
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John F. Collins (category Burials at St. Joseph Cemetery (West Roxbury, Massachusetts))
Senate election in Massachusetts. After leaving politics, he worked as a visiting professor and lecturer. John Collins was born in Roxbury on July 20, 1919...
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named after Roxbury, Massachusetts. Farmers grew hay and raised livestock. Set on an intervale surrounded by the Western Maine Mountains, Roxbury was noted...
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fifteen, and graduated in 1840 with high honors. Gaston then moved to Roxbury, Massachusetts (then independent of neighboring Boston), where his parents had...
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Jamaica Plain (redirect from Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts)
(11 km2) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of Roxbury. The community seceded...
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William Pynchon, founder of City of Springfield; earlier founded Roxbury, Massachusetts; in 1649, wrote America's first banned book Joe Ragland (born 1989)...
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Oompa (category Songwriters from Massachusetts)
known professionally as Oompa, is a rapper, poet, and vocalist from Roxbury, Massachusetts. Oompa was put into foster care at six weeks old. She grew up in...
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the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, serving the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The parish was established in 1845, and a church...
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