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Roxbury — formerly “Dudley Square”
An attested claim that Roxbury was formerly named “Dudley Square”. The name the square carried before 2020; still said. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Roxbury, Boston. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.
Roxbury was formerly named Dudley Square
This is an attestation. The archive records who asserts it, since when, and on what evidence. It does not rule on whether it is true.
- Subject
- Roxbury
- Predicate
former_name- Attested by
- English Wikipedia
- Attestor kind
- reference work
- Attested since, as stated
- as at the date of retrieval
- Attestation strength
- attested — a count of independent attestations, never a truth value
- Variant note
- The name the square carried before 2020; still said.
Evidence
English Wikipedia, “Roxbury, Boston”, retrieved 2 September 2026
A large Irish population also developed, with many activities centered around then-Dudley Square (now Nubian Square), which just before and following annexation into Boston, became a central location for Roxbury commerce.
· source
Other attestations of the same assertion
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Roxbury was formerly named Nubian Square
Attested by English Wikipedia (reference work) since as at the date of retrieval · attested
Related records
- about — Roxbury
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:roxbury-former-name-dudley-square
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/roxbury-former-name-dudley-square
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/roxbury-former-name-dudley-square.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- English Wikipedia — source of record
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (open)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- Roxbury,_Boston
- Attribution
- Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rights as stated
- Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the plain-text extract of the attesting article from the MediaWiki API | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | verify | searched the article text for the name at a word boundary; a candidate the source did not contain was refused and the refusal recorded | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | quote | took the first sentence containing the name, unaltered, as the evidence for this claim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |