Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA*
1845 - ROXBURY. [Pop. 9,089 Inc. 1630.]

Roxbury, the largest town in Norfolk County, is the only town naturally united to Boston by land.

On a level tract, called Jamaica Plain, is a beautiful pond, about four miles from Boston centre, from which many families in Boston are supplied with fresh water, by means of an aqueduct of logs and iron pipes under ground.

The first minister of Roxbury was John Eliot, so distinguished as a missionary among the neighboring Indians that he was called the Apostle.

General Joseph Warren, who was killed at Bunker Hill, was born here in 1740, and his mansion is still standing in Warren Street. William Heath, also a General in the Army of the Revolution, was a citizen of Roxbury.

Roxbury was the birth-place of Governors Thomas Dudley,Joseph Dudley, and Increase Sumner, and the residences of Governors Shirley, and Eustis.

Its vicinity to the metropolis causes it to be highly cultivated, and
rapidly to increase in population.

Distance from Dedham, 7 miles ; from Boston, 3.

An Elementary Geography for Massachusetts Children by William Bentley Fowle and Asa Fitz, 1845
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