Jamaica Plain

Brookside: roughly bounded by Boylston Street, Green Street, Washington Street, and the Southwest Corridor Park

Egleston Square: intersection of Columbus Avenue and Washington Street at the border between Jamaica Plain and Roxbury. Portions of School Street are part of Jamaica Plain though mail is delivered to 02119; whereas most

addresses are in 02130

: roughly bounded by the Arborway, Morton Street, Walk Hill Street, South Street and Forest Hills Cemetery

Forest Hills

Hyde Square: the area around the intersection of Centre Street, Day Street, and Perkins Street, extending east along Centre Street towards Roxbury

Jackson Square: intersection of Columbus Avenue and Centre Street. Site of an Orange Line station

MBTA

Jamaica Hills: northwest of the Arnold Arboretum, including Moss Hill and Green Hill

Parkside: roughly bounded by Washington Street, Egleston Square, Morton Street and

Franklin Park

Pondside: roughly bounded by Centre Street, Perkins Street, and

the Jamaicaway

South Street: follows the named street on either side from the Monument (on Centre Street) to Forest Hills

Stonybrook: with an active neighborhood association, documented boundaries begin at Rockvale Circle southwest on Washington Street encompassing Burnett Street at McBride Street, cutting southeast across MBTA bus yard to Lotus Street, and northeast up Forest Hills Street back to Rockvale Circle.

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Sumner Hill: roughly bounded by Seaverns Avenue, Everett Street, Sedgwick Street, and Newbern Street

Sunnyside: roughly bounded by Centre Street, Day Street, Round Hill Street, and Gay Head Street

The Monument: Overlapping with Pondside above, the area around the intersection of Centre and South Streets

: south of Forest Hills, bounded by Walk Hill Street, Goodway Street, and Wachusett Street

Woodbourne

: no longer recognized; its territory included part of Hyde Park Ave and certain blocks of which are now considered part of Woodbourne

White City

(1860–1919), United States Secretary of State

Robert Bacon

(1867–1961), Nobel Peace Prize winner, founder of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Emily Greene Balch

(1888–1964), Mayor of Cleveland, U.S. Senator of Ohio and Supreme Court Justice

Harold Hitz Burton

(1919–1995), Mayor of Boston

John F. Collins

(1874–1958), Mayor of Boston, Governor of Massachusetts, and U.S. Representative

James Michael Curley

(1877–1958), American industrialist of the Hawaiian pineapple industry, founder of present-day Dole Food Company

James Dole

(1853–1944), preservationist and co-founder of today's Acadia National Park

George Dorr

(1904–1950), restaurateur

Ruby Foo

(1737–1814), farmer, political leader, Continental Army Major General

William Heath

(1716–1781), British Naval officer, Loyalist

Joshua Loring

(1972– ) Entertainer, Member of Pop Act New Kids On The Block

Joey McIntyre

(1876–1951), last Republican Mayor of Boston to date

Malcolm Nichols

(1823–1892), historian

Francis Parkman

(1872–1938), State Representative, Mayor of Boston during the Boston Police Strike

Andrew James Peters

(1932–1963), poet, novelist, and short-story writer

Sylvia Plath

(1944–1995), writer

Gary Provost

(1967– ), comedian, podcaster^[65]

Joe Rogan

(1978–), actor, lived in Jamaica Plain in childhood.^[66]

Jeremy Strong

(1901–1953), Mayor of Boston, Governor of Massachusetts, United States Secretary of Labor

Maurice Joseph Tobin

(1847–1919), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State

William F. Wharton

(1975), Entrepreneur

Greg Selkoe

(1937), Hall of Fame Wrestler

Richard Francis Sullivan

Official website

University Archives and Special Collections, Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts Boston

Jamaica Plain Historical Society records, 1855–2015