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Author Archives: earltaylor
Dorchester Illustration 2594 McCreight Home Sanatarium
Dorchester Illustration 2594 McCreight Home Sanatarium In 1887, Mary B. McCreight immigrated to the United States from Ireland. By 1902, she was renting 58 Bowdoin Avenue and running a hospital. In 1908, she purchased the property. Two years later, she … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2593 Treasures Along the Neponset River Trail
Dorchester Illustration 2593 Treasures Along the Neponset River Trail Treasures Along the Neponset River Trail contributed by Carole Mooney Birds and animals including eagles, hawks, heron, ducks, geese, crows, turkeys, deer and rabbits attract the attention of visitors to the … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2592 Historic Grave Markers Restored
Dorchester Illustration 2592 Historic Grave Markers Restored Historic Grave Markers Restored The darkened angel in this photograph is now gleaming white as she reaches toward the Neponset River near the Southeast corner of Cedar Grove Cemetery {CGC}. Moss, mold and … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2591 Arch for Jay’s Treaty
Dorchester Illustration 2591 Arch for Jay’s Treaty Today’s illustration is a drawing of the arch erected at Lower Mills in 1798. The late Rev. Daniel Dunn was pastor of Saint Margaret’s Church and a past president of the Dorchester Historical … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2590 Alice Stone Blackwell, 1857-1950
Dorchester Illustration 2590 Alice Stone Blackwell, 1857-1950 The Dorchester Historical Society will host a Zoom program on Sunday, November 6, at 2 pm, about the 50,000 women who registered to vote after the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2589 Lucy Stone
Today we have a scan of a print made from an 1844 Daguerrotype in the Prints and Photographs Division of Library of Congress showing Lucy Stone as a young woman. Born in West Brookfield in 1818, Lucy Stone came from … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2588 Emily Fifield
Dorchester Illustration 2588 Emily Fifield Mrs. Emily A. Fifield was born in Weymouth on Feb. 12,1840. Her father, Thomas B. Porter, was a lumber dealer in the town and had wharfs on the Monatiquot River which passes out into the … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2587 Elisha B. Worrell
Dorchester Illustration 2587 Elisha B. Worrell Elisha B. Worrell was a wholesale fruit merchant in Boston and lived on Trull Street in Dorchester until 1897, when he moved to 98 Melville Avenue. In 1910, he and his wife, Helen, moved … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2586 Coffin Valve Company
Dorchester Illustration 2586 Coffin Valve Company The Coffin Valve Company was located at the end of Tolman Street next to the railroad lines. The company became a supplier of large valves to the Metropolitan Water Works in Boston and to … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2585 Early Manufacturing in Dorchester: Tanning
Dorchester Illustration 2585 Early Manufacturing in Dorchester: Tanning contributed by Carole Mooney In the Southeast corner of the Clap compound, at 195 Boston Street, rests a reminder of when a young country encouraged manufacturing to bolster its economy to become … Continue reading
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