The cove jamaica pond
JAMAICA PLAIN, USA

Jamaica Pond

Once a district that only included the houses of Boston’s elite, the Pond later was put to industrial use as tons of ice were harvested there each winter. Learn about the movers and shakers such as Francis Parkman, Pauline Agassiz Shaw and James Michael Curley who made their homes on the Pond’s shores. Discover how the Pond was transformed from private estates and storehouses into the parkland we know today.

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507 Jamaicaway, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA
Jamaica Pond
  1. Introduction
  2. the Park takes shape
  3. Curley House
  4. Pinebank Promontory
  5. Hancock Steps/Island
  6. Perkins Street Entrance
  7. Halfway along the back side
  8. Parkman Memorial
  9. Ice Harvesting
  10. Emily Greene Balch
  11. Emily Greene Balch
  12. 20th Century
  13. Finale