After the Irish moved into Jamaica Plain
By adamg - 8/10/09 - 7:19 am
Mark Bulger takes a look at the carving up of part of the old Greenough estate into 50-foot-wide parcels for Irish immigrants in the 1850s, after they'd arrived in the neighborhood in the preceding decade. The land in question is along what is now McBride Street.

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Yo, man!
The best part of that article is that one of the people who got a parcel of land lists his occupation as "yeoman."
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