City of Roxbury

 

Roxbury is one of six villages founded by English colonists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. The town — literally named for the area’s prominent stones and rocky features — grew from the very spot on which the UUUM campus is located, with early settlers making their homes within close proximity to the meetinghouse and then spreading outwards as the town grew. First Church in Roxbury is the fifth meetinghouse built on this site.