a town of the United States of North America, Norfolk county, Massachusetts, forming a suburb of Boston, from which it is distant 3 miles to the S.W., and reached by four broad streets. The ground on which it stands is very varied in its nature, and some parts are so elevated as to command a fine view of the city. Most of the houses are well built, and surrounded by extensive gardens or shrubberies. Roxbury is the favourite residence of many Boston merchants. It has, however, branches of trade and manufactures proper to itself; the latter including steam and fire engines, iron castings, carpets, leather, &c. There are also here banks, insurance offices, and newspaper offices. The Forest Hill cemetery in this town is a large and well laid-out piece of ground. Roxbury was incorporated in 1630, the same year as Boston, but not chartered as a city till 1846. Pop. (1850) 18,273; (1855) about 22,000.