West Roxbury

by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

Overview

West Roxbury, located along the scenic Charles River, is a community of tree-lined streets and panoramic views, which has undergone tremendous changes since its incorporation as a town in 1851. Formerly known as �Westerly� or �South Street,� West Roxbury has grown from a largely rural area, accessible only by train, into a charming neighborhood of Victorian homes that still offers many of the same advantages that attracted people a century ago�the quietness of small town life, with the attractions of big city living just a short distance away. West Roxbury is also the former home of Brook Farm, a utopian community founded by Reverend Ripley. Brook Farm was a center of literary achievement that attracted such foremost thinkers of the nineteenth century as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Horace Greeley.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439631720
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/29/2004
Series:	Images of America Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	60 MB
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About the Author

Through powerful text and images, Boston historian Anthony Mitchell Sammarco shows the many changing faces of West Roxbury through the decades, creating a compelling visual history of this Massachusetts town.