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Dorchester Illustration 2596 Charles Barnard Fox

Posted on December 11, 2022 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration 2596 Charles Barnard Fox This information about Colonel Charles Barnard Fox comes from http://foresthillstrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/colonel-charles-barnard-fox.html With the sensationalism garnered in the movie “Glory,” we reveled in the drama and impact of the Civil War however it also served to … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2595 Archibald T. Davison, Jr.

Posted on December 4, 2022 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration 2595 Archibald T. Davison, Jr. Archibald Thompson Davison (11 October 1883 – 6 February 1961) was an American musicologist, conductor, composer and music educator. Davison lived with his parents and siblings at 394 Washington Street, Dorchester. His father … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2594 McCreight Home Sanatarium

Posted on November 27, 2022 by earltaylor

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

Posted on November 20, 2022 by earltaylor

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

Posted on November 13, 2022 by earltaylor

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

Posted on November 6, 2022 by earltaylor

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

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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