Abstract
Place-Names and Images of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Highlights
1 At the borders of Jamaica Plain on the west, south, and southeast, lie Olmsted Park and its ponds, the Arnold Arboretum, and Franklin Park, all of them designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and included in the city's plan for an "Emerald Necklace," a string of parks to extend from the Boston Common to the Charles River in West Roxbury
Especially within the area defined by Lamartine Street, Washington Street, and Heath Street-the area nearest Mission Hill and Roxbury-houses built originally for blue collar workers depend for their maintenance on the concern and funds invested in them by their owners
The maps of the Geological Survey offer a reliable anatomy of particular regions lik~ that of Jamaica Plain
Summary
JAMAICA PLAIN IS A NEIGHBORHOOD of Boston, its topographical features a diversity of park land, residential areas, and traffic patterns. 1 At the borders of Jamaica Plain on the west, south, and southeast, lie Olmsted Park and its ponds, the Arnold Arboretum, and Franklin Park, all of them designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and included in the city's plan for an "Emerald Necklace," a string of parks to extend from the Boston Common to the Charles River in West Roxbury. These photographs have a dual purpose: to have residents of Jamaica Plain name as many of the topographical features in their neighborhood as they can and to have them subdivide the photographs identified into separate groups, each group to contain those photographs which in their view picture places located near to one another.
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