Roxbury

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former town neighborhood

Roxbury is one of the earliest English-settled neighborhoods of present-day Boston, historically significant as a colonial town in what became Massachusetts.

Aliases (5)

Statements (35)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former town → neighborhood →
continent	North America →
country	United States →
foundedBy	English colonists →
foundedInPeriod	colonial era →
hasCharacteristic	commercial area → historical neighborhood → residential area → urban neighborhood →
hasCity	Boston →
hasColonialStatus	town in colonial Massachusetts →
hasDemonym	Roxbury resident →
hasEtymology	derived from English place-naming traditions →
hasHistoricalRole	colonial town → early English settlement →
hasJurisdiction	Boston city government →
hasLanguage	English →
hasRegion	New England →
hasState	Massachusetts →
historicallyPartOf	Massachusetts Bay Colony →
historicallySignificantFor	being one of the earliest English-settled neighborhoods of Boston → role in early colonial Massachusetts →
isNeighborhoodOf	Boston →
locatedIn	Boston → Greater Boston → New England → United States East Coast →
locatedInAdministrativeEntity	Massachusetts →
locatedInMetropolitanArea	Boston metropolitan area →
locatedInTime	present-day Boston →
mergedInto	Boston →
partOf	City of Boston → Suffolk County NERFINISHED →
timeZone	Eastern Time Zone →

Referenced by (19)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Emerald Necklace park system → MBTA bus route 1 →	connects
MBTA bus route 1 ("Roxbury, Boston") → Northeastern University ("Roxbury neighborhood") →	locatedIn
Fenway–Kenmore →	adjacentTo
Mission Hill →	borderedBy
Jamaica Plain →	borders
MBTA bus route 28 →	connectsNeighborhood
Stony Brook →	flowsThrough
Dorchester →	hasBorderWith
Ruggles station →	isInNeighborhood
Massachusetts Bay Colony →	majorTown
Boston campus →	neighborhood
New Edition ("Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts") →	placeOfOrigin
Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn ("Roxbury, Massachusetts") →	residence
Ruggles station →	servesArea
MBTA bus route 28 ("Roxbury community") →	servesCommunity
Roxbury Crossing station →	servesNeighborhood
MBTA bus route 1 →	serviceArea