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Dorchester Illustration 2590 Alice Stone Blackwell, 1857-1950

Posted on October 30, 2022 by earltaylor

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

Posted on October 23, 2022 by earltaylor

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

Posted on October 16, 2022 by earltaylor

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

Posted on October 9, 2022 by earltaylor

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

Posted on October 2, 2022 by earltaylor

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

Posted on September 25, 2022 by earltaylor

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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Dorchester Illustration 2584 Gulliver’s Creek

Posted on September 18, 2022 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration 2584 Gulliver’s Creek Gulliver’s Creek The Neponset River estuary served as an important water highway to Lower Mills until 1837, when the bridge on Granite Avenue was constructed. The bridge hindered the passage of larger vessels, and the … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2583 Nathaniel Tucker and Mary Fenno Tucker

Posted on September 11, 2022 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration 2583 Nathaniel Tucker and Mary Fenno Tucker The following text is from the Dorchester Historical Society’s house history project. Born in Canton (later Stoughton) in 1805, Nathaniel Tucker was the eldest of James and Betsey (Withington) Tucker’s eight … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2582 Marshall Pinckney Wilder

Posted on September 4, 2022 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration 2582 Marshall Pinckney Wilder From Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1891) Marshall Pinckney Wilder was born On September 22, 1798, in Rindge, New Hampshire. His father was a merchant, … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2581 Henry Philips Oakman

Posted on August 28, 2022 by earltaylor

Henry Philips Oakman, 1831-1917 Henry Philips Oakman (right) was one of many enterprising developers working to meet the growing demand for housing in the decades after Dorchester was annexed to Boston in 1870. Newspaper articles indicate that Henry’s name was … Continue reading →