Before Orchard Gardens, there was Orchard Park. And before the headlines, there was a community.Orchard Park to Orchard Gardens: The People, Streets, Music, Struggle, and Legacy of a Roxbury Community tells the story of one of Boston's most remembered neighborhoods-from its beginnings as a public housing development in the 1940s to its transformation into Orchard Gardens.
This is more than a story about buildings. It is about the people who called them home.Yet the memories remained.
Built from public records, institutional histories, court records, journalism, scholarship, and neighborhood memory, Orchard Park to Orchard Gardens preserves a piece of Roxbury history for the people who lived it-and for the generations who came afterward.