Dorchester Historical Society

Dorchester Illustration no. 2161

Postcard. Caption on front St. Anns Episcopal Church, Dorchester, Mass.  Postmarked Feb. 7, 1906 with one-cent stamp.

The building is located at 10 East Cottage Street near Dudley Street.  The building is currently owned by Defenders of the Faith Christian Church.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2160

This announcement for the Dorchester Bicycle Club is one of the earliest postcards in our collection.

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The Board of the Dorchester Historical Society

Requests That You Kindly Reserve the Date for “Dinner at Willow Court”

Friday, September 26, 2014

Commencing at 6 o’clock in the evening at DHS Headquarters.

A festive evening to recall the style and elegance of earlier times. Cocktails, seated dinner, and live auction.  Period attire, a la Downton Abbey, encouraged: Victorian, Edwardian, Roaring Twenties, upstairs or downstairs.  Proceeds to benefit the DHS Building Restoration.

Buy tickets by clicking on the info about the Gala in the center of the home page of www.dorchesterhistoricalsocietyblog.org

Dorchester Illustration no. 2159 Dorchester High School Football Team

Dorchester Illustration no. 2159

October 11, 1974.  Praise for Team’s Rescue.  Boston Mayor Kevin White brings words of praise Friday to the football field at Dorchester High School in the city plagued with racial violence.  The school football team, mostly black, rescued twin white sisters who were being beaten by about 30 other black youths.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2158

 Photograph of George N. Clarke.  Handwritten note on verso: George N. Clarke, Dorchester, MA.  Died in the war.

 A tinsmith from Dorchester, Massachusetts, George Clarke served with the 11th MA Infantry and died of disease at Falmouth,Virginia.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2157

Joseph A. Hartin died in France in 1918 during WW I . He volunteered for a dangerous mission and was killed 5 days before the Armistice was signed. Awarded the Légion d’Honneur medal from the French government, he was given full military honors at burial after his body was exhumed from France.   

Dedicated in 1919, Joseph A. Hartin Square is in Fields Corner at the intersection of Adams Street and Dorchester Avenue.

His family home was at 28 Ditson Street, Meeting House Hill.  The woman standing in front of the caisson in the photo is his mother.  She grieved long and hard for him even though she had twelve other children.  She refused to go to the dedication of a square in his name but one daugher who was 15 at the time did go.  Another daughter who was only 10 stayed at home and said her mother sat in the parlor and cried all day.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2156

Pennant postcard.

Postcard. Caption on front: It certainly pays to stop in Dorchester, Mass.  I’ll give you her address.  Postmarked Dec. 16, 1914 with one-cent stamp.

 The senders of the card (Frances and Herbert) seem to have written their own address 25 Mather Street on the front.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2145

Pierce and Adams-Street Mill 1899

Photograph of the mill buildings of the Baker Chocolate company on the east side of Adams Street from article Some Notes on the Food Value of Cocoa and Chocolate, Harper’s Weekly, 1899.  The Adams-Street Mill is connected to the Pierce Mill at the left corner where Adams Street makes the turn.

The article cites Brillat-Savarin’s Physiology of Taste: After a good, complete, and copious breakfast, if we take in addition a cup of well-made chocolate, digestion will be perfectly accomplished in three hours, and we may dine whenever we like.

The people who make constant use of chocolate are the ones who enjoy the most steady health, and are the least subject to a multitude of little ailments which destroy the comfort of life; their plumpness is also more equal.

Join the Dorchester Historical Society and the Department of Conservation and Recreation for a walking tour of the Baker Chocolate buildings, Saturday, May 10, 1 pm, starting at the Milton Landing.  Tour length is less than a mile.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2144

Demolition of the silos at Baker Chocolate in 1987.

Eighteen large silos and a grain elevator were built in 1941 as storage, in anticipation of World War II and expected difficulties in securing cacao beans. The “Baker Chocolate” painted silos remained a landmark in the Lower Mills for four decades. The silos were never filled to capacity, and in 1987 they were demolished.

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