In 1676, a group of local residents donated corn and land to create a school in Jamaica Plain—and thus became what we know as the Eliot School today. In 1689 Rev. John Eliot endowed the school with an additional 75 acres, and that is where the name Eliot comes from. The school went through many different iterations and styles—from being a Boston Public School, having multiple campuses in Boston, at some point taught plumbing (it…
