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West Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bordered by Roslindale and Jamaica Plain to the northeast, the village of Chestnut Hill and the town of Brookline to the north, the city of Newton to the northwest, the towns of Dedham and Needham to the southwest, and Hyde Park to the southeast.
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government.
It covers part of Brookline in Norfolk County and part of Boston in Suffolk County. [1] [2] The district is currently represented by Democrat Bill MacGregor of West Roxbury. The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's 1st Middlesex and Norfolk district and Norfolk and Suffolk district. [3]
Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of 4.4 square miles (11 km 2) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of Roxbury. The community seceded from Roxbury during the formation of West Roxbury in 1851 and became part of Boston when West Roxbury was annexed in 1874. [1]
Roxbury (/ ˈ r ɒ k s b ər i /) is a neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. [1]Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city for neighborhood services coordination.
Suffolk County (/ ˈ s ʌ f ə k / SUF-ək) is located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 797,936, [1] making it the fourth-most populous county in Massachusetts. [2] The county comprises the cities of Boston, Chelsea, and Revere, and the town of Winthrop. [3]
Roslindale is a primarily residential neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bordered by Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, West Roxbury and Mattapan.It is served by an MBTA Commuter Rail line, several MBTA bus lines and the MBTA Orange Line in nearby Jamaica Plain.
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