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Dorchester Illustration 2686 Putnam Horseshoe Nails

Posted on September 15, 2024 by earltaylor

Putnam Horseshoe Nails Dorchester Illustration 2686 Silas Putnam invented a machine to make horseshoe nails that would perform like handmade nails. His factory at the northern end of Port Norfolk was modest at the time his factory was pictured in … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2673 Putnam Horse Shoe Nail Company

Posted on June 16, 2024 by earltaylor

Putnam Horse Shoe Nail Company Dorchester Illustration 2673  Silas S. Putnam Nail Company began the manufacture of curtain fixtures, horse shoe nails and other types of hardware at the end of the Port Norfolk peninsula in 1859. Today’s illustration includes … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2672, Dorchester Mutual Fire Insurance Co.

Posted on June 9, 2024 by earltaylor

Dorchester Mutual Fire Insruance Co. Dorchester Illustration 2672  Dorchester Mutual Fire Insurance Co. was incorporated in 1855. By the mid-1860s, the company owned this building pictured in today’s illustration at 7 Woodworth St. in Port Norfolk. At the bottom of … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2671 Stearns Lumber Company

Posted on June 2, 2024 by earltaylor

Stearns Lumber Company Dorchester Illustration 2671   This image from the 1910 atlas, shows that the Laban Pratt’s Lumber Company extended on both sides of the train tracks at the Neponset River, but Albert Thomas Stearns Lumber Company to the … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2654 Community Church of Neponset

Posted on February 4, 2024 by earltaylor

Community Church of Neponset Dorchester Illustration 2654 On Nov. 1, 1927, the Appleton Methodist Episcopal Church (organized March 1848), combined with Trinity Congregational Church (organized May 11, 1859), to form the Community Church of Neponset at 51 Walnut Street. It … Continue reading →

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Merrill G. Leavens Interview

Posted on March 5, 2022 by earltaylor

Merrill Leavens at 97 years of age. Mr. Leavens is a former Port Norfolk resident. He grew up at 52 Port Norfolk Street. The interview with Merrill George Leavens took place, June 11, 2021, at his home, 212 Parke Ave., … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2369 William Edward Doucette

Posted on September 9, 2018 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2369        William Edward Doucette At the Dorchester Historical Society, we are in the process of a year-long project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. Using a collection of photographs we have of WWI … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illusration 2368 Stearns Lumber

Posted on September 2, 2018 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2368        Stearns Lumber Stearns Lumber Company 75th anniversary medal The Stearns Lumber Company, which eventually covered forty acres, was opened by A. T. Stearns in 1849 at Port Norfolk where wood could arrived by ship or by … Continue reading →

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