Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1884
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Dorchester town seal. The thatched roof church in the lower right of the shield represents religious liberty. The thatched roof school in the lower left is the world’s first free school, established in this town in 1639. The mill, with its large wheel, seen upon the left bank of the Neponset River, was the first water mill in the colony built by Israel Stoughton in 1633. The sun rising in the background behind the Blue Hills is shining favor upon the Colony. The triple-towered castle surmounting the shield is adopted in memory of Dorchester in the old England, formerly a Roman fortress. The Motto upon the ribbon, ‘Pietate, Literis, Industria,’ signifies that Piety, Learning and Industry, were the prominent virtues of the early settlers.
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