Sometimes called the Eden of America <strong>Jamaica Plain</strong> has a rich and colorfulhistory reaching back to pastoral roots in the seventeenth century. S... » 

Sometimes called the Eden of America Jamaica Plain has a rich and colorfulhistory reaching back to pastoral roots in the seventeenth century. Some saythe neighborhood was named during the heyday of rum shipments from Jamaica toBoston in the 1660s following Cromwells seizure of the Caribbean island.Later part of Roxbury and still later West Roxbury Jamaica Plain was a summerplayground for elite New Englanders before finally becoming part of Boston in1874. «