West Roxbury

West Roxbury, located along the scenic Charles River, is a community of tree-lined streets and panoramic views, which has undergone tremendous changes since its incorporation as a town in 1851. Formerly known as "Westerly" or "South Street," West Roxbury has grown from a largely rural area, accessible only by train, into a charming neighborhood of Victorian homes that still offers many of the same advantages that attracted people a century ago--the quietness of small town life, with the attractions of big city living just a short distance away. West Roxbury is also the former home of Brook Farm, a utopian community founded by Reverend Ripley. Brook Farm was a center of literary achievement that attracted such foremost thinkers of the nineteenth century as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Horace Greeley.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2004
• EAN: 9781531619985
• ISBN: 978-1-5316-1998-5
• No. of pages: 130
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 250 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous