Jamaica Pond is purchased by the city.

[1992-JPHS] The two-bay kettle pond was created by the melting of a glacier and then fed by springs. The pond is more than 65 acres in area and 1.45 miles in circumference. It is subsequently flanked and surrounded by some 60 additional acres of parkland. Shea’s Island, inspired by the wife of Charles Sprague Sargent and named for Parks Department manager James Shea, is built in 1915.