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Dorchester Illustration no. 2505 Save Our Shores: Tenean Beach

Posted on March 28, 2021 by earltaylor

Caption: Young officials of the Neponset Youth Civic Assn. display their feelings with this sign during protest at Tenean Beach yesterday.  From left are Eric Brugman, treasurer; John Pitts, vice president; Richard Livingston, president, and Charles Perry, president-elect.  Published June … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2504 Trash incinerator at Neponset

Posted on March 21, 2021 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2504 Trash incinerator at Neponset Top photo caption on back: Refuse burner, almost 100 feet tall, under construction at the Neponset dump off Southeast Expressway.  It’s constructed of steel plates set on poured concrete base.  Passersby think … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2503 Keystone Conversion to War Production

Posted on March 14, 2021 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2503 Keystone Conversion to War Production The Keystone apartment building can be seen from the Southeast Expressway.  The building was originally built to house the Hallet & Davis Piano Company, and that is how Hallet Street received … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2502 Building Roof Cave-In, 1978

Posted on March 7, 2021 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2502  Building Roof Cave-In, 1978 In 1978, the Ashmont Creamery was a popular spot on Dorchester Avenue between Monsignor Lydon Way and Edwin Street.  The building is now occupied by the Phu Thinh Market and Ann’s Coin … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2501 Fire Station on River Street

Posted on February 28, 2021 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2501  Fire Station on River Street When Dorchester was a separate town from Boston, the fire station at Lower Mills had the name Fountain Engine no. 1.  In the early 1880s the City replaced a wooden fire … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2500 Waiting for the Hour

Posted on February 21, 2021 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2500  Waiting for the Hour Carlton was a portrait and genre painter who was active in the Boston area from 1836 till after the Civil War.  He moved to Dorchester in the 1850s and lived a little … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2499 Sharp and the Victoria Regia

Posted on February 14, 2021 by earltaylor

Sharp and the Victoria Regia Active as a lithographer and photographer on Dexter Street, Washington Village, William Sharp lived and worked at the same address starting in the late 1850s.  Sharp would have been a Dorchester resident except that the … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2498 William Munroe Trotter program

Posted on February 13, 2021 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2498 William Munroe Trotter program The Dorchester Historical Society welcomes Historian Kerri Greenidge, author of “Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter About this Event William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934, in Dorchester 1899-1909) published the … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2497 Mason Regulator Company interior

Posted on February 7, 2021 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2497 Mason Regulator Company interior Note: Dorchester Historical Society program to be presented through Zoom has been scheduled for Sunday, February 21, at 2 pm.  Historian Kerri Greenidge will speak about her book Black Radical: The Life … Continue reading →

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Harold Grant Mitten

Posted on February 2, 2021 by earltaylor

Harold Grant Mitten World War I Veteran By Camille Arbogast Harold Grant Mitten was born at home, at 37 Folsom Street in Dorchester, on August 2, 1895, to George A. and Nellie Frances (Weeks) Mitten. George was born in Quebec, … Continue reading →

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