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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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Dorchester Illustration 2584 Gulliver’s Creek
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
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
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
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
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Dorchester Illustration 2580 Beals Coleman Wright
Dorchester Illustration 2580 Beals Coleman Wright Beals Coleman Wright (December 19, 1879 – August 23, 1961) was an American tennis player who was active at the end of the 1890s and early 1900s. He won the singles title at the 1905 U.S. … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2579 William Henry Sayward
William Henry Sayward, 1845-1934 Image of William H. Sayward from The Boston Globe, February 17, 1921 Image of 69 Monadnock Street from Google Street View 2011 William Henry Sayward and his wife, Caroline Augusta (nee Barnard), both descended from old … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2578 Gardner Asaph Churchill
Gardner Asaph Churchill taken from The Churchill Family in America. (1904) Gardner Asaph Churchill was born May 26, 1839. On April 16, 1862, he married Helen Brastow Barrett, and he died on August 20, 1896. Mr. Churchill was educated in … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2577 James H. Means, 1823-1894
Dorchester Illustration 2577 James H. Means, 1823-1894 John Codman served the Second Church from 1808 until his death in 1847. He was succeeded by James H. Means. Rev. James Howard Means, D.D., became the second minister of Second Church, a … Continue reading
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