Database & Resource Guide

Tessil Collins of RCHT and Ken Granderson of Inner City Software have assembled an on-line database of source information about Roxbury, Massachusetts and its history. Mr Collins, a Research Associate in UMass Boston’s University Archives & Special Collections Department, is managing the project to make it available to the public.

The benefits of the database/resource guide are its substantial content, public availability on the Internet and its potential for continuous growth as sources are located and added.  The guide will serve as a resource for teachers, educators, students, and historians to locate materials on Roxbury.

The community need that inspired this project is the lack of knowledge about the role and record of the town of Roxbury and its citizenry in the history of Boston.  Exhibitions, tourist attractions, and chronological programs about the city often omit information about the neighborhood of Roxbury and its vital part in Boston’s growth and development. We expect this project will improve this situation.