Dorchester Historical Society

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2039

Portrait of Edward Payson Jackson, a Dorchester resident, who lived at 41 Lyndhurst Street. 

The following is from Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 Virtualology^TM

Edward Payson Jackson, author, born in Erzeroum, Turkey, 15 March, 1840. His parents were American missionaries in Turkey. Edward came to the United States in 1845, and was graduated in 1870 at Amherst, where he was poet of his class. During the civil war he served in the 45th Massachusetts regiment. Since 1877 Mr. Jackson has been master in the Boston Latin school. He has published “Mathematic Geography” (New York, 1878); “A Demi-God ” (Boston, 1886); and “The Earth in Space” (1887).

He also published “Character Building” (Boston, 1891).

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2038

Scan of paper label from a box of chocolate from Walter Baker & Co., Dorchester’s most famous industry.

The illustration shows the Pierce Mill fronting on Adams Street and the Preston Mill behind.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2037

Photo of the Dorchester Carpet Cleaning Co. at 315 Adams Street, owned by Edward A. Huebener, who had his furniture repair business in the same building.  Huebener was the eccentric gentleman who collected bricks from Dorchester buildings and hired artists to paint house portraits of the buildings on the face of the bricks.  His collection is now at the Dorchester Historical Society.

Photograph is from late 19th century or early years of the 20th century.  315 Adams Street is on the west side of Adams Street between Park and Gibson Streets.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2036

Today’s image is a scan from the 1910 Dorchester Blue Book showing a building labeled Resthaven, an Italianate-style mansion with a mansard roof. Resthaven stood at 512 Washington Street, between Tremlett Street and Melville Avenue, now the site of the Dorchester District Court (notice the granite wall in front that still survives). On the left of Resthaven was the Reed house, moved to 51 Melville Avenue, and on the right was the Bull House, moved to 6 Parkman Street.  Resthaven was demolished about 1923-1925 to make way for the Dorchester Municipal Court House.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2035

Illustration of the Columbia Road Automobile Station from 1910 Blue Book of Dorchester.  Located at 610 Columbia Road, Fred Edwards, proprietor. Telephone 693-3 Dorchester.

The building was apparently demolished sometime after 1918.  The United Market building took its place and became the first supermarket in the world.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2034

Postcard. Caption on front: You are invited to attend my 5th birthday party, December 10, 1908 … Mattapan Baptist Church.  Postally unused

With view of Mattapan Baptist Church supposedly on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan, but now in a building in Milton.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2033

Advertisement and 1906 postcard from Dr. Douglas who ran a sanatorium at 321 Centre Street.  This was formerly the Charles Whitten estate.

Note the directions: “Take Ashmont and Milton” electric from Boston to Centre Street.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2032

Postcard. Caption on front: Camp Jos H Lyon, Franklin Field.  Postally unused.  On verso: Published by Putnam Art Co., 12 Pearl St., Boston.

Franklin Field was host to an encampment of Knights of Pythias in August of 1908. The biennial convention and encampment of the Supreme Lodge coincided with the annual convention of the Pythian Sisters and took place in Boston with an attendance estimated at about 80,000. The most interest feature of the gathering was the encampment of the Uniform Rank, which dedicated Camp Joseph H. Lyon at Franklin Field with over 2,000 tents accommodating 7,000 knights.

The Fraternal Order of Knights of Pythias and its members are dedicated to the cause of universal peace. Pythians are pledged to the promotion of understanding among men of good will as the surest means of attaining Universal Peace. The Fraternal Order of Knights of Pythias is a great international fraternity which was founded in Washington, DC, February 19, 1864, by Justus H. Rathbone , and embraces more than two thousand subordinate lodges in the United States and Canada, with occasional lodges having been formed elsewhere.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2031

“Eddy and Sons made Refrigerators in Dorchester for 70 Years.”  By Anthony Sammarco. September 24, 1993.

Few of us in Dorchester are without a refrigerator in the kitchen, and as last summers’ heat waves rolled in we were especially thankful for its intended purpose.  However few of know that in 147 Darius Eddy of Dorchester established “The Eddy Refrigerator” in King Square, Dorchester.

Darius Eddy recognized that people needed refrigeration to cool food and preserve it for use after it has been bought in the market.  An enterprising businessman, he established his company on Gibson Street near Fields Corner to produce ice chests, or wooden boxes with metal linings that held ice to keep food cool.

Crafting his “refrigerators” from fine quality wood and lining the sides with slate, Eddy sold these popular cooling units throughout New England.  The demand proved great, and though the original factory was destroyed by fire in 1872, Eddy built a new and more modern facility not from the corner of Adams and Gibson Streets.

Eddy Refrigerators were marketed to be “dry, sweet and clean” and designed “to protect the health of the family” in the circulation of cold, fresh air through the refrigerator.  With almost daily replacement of the ice block by the local iceman, food was kept for longer periods of time.  The increase in productivity led to the building of warehouses for stock items and for the display of refrigerators to be sold to the public.  Eventually, Eddy’s sons were to assist him in the business.

After 1872, Eddy took his sons Lewis, Isaac and George Eddy into the rapidly growing company.  They maintained the use of wood for the cabinets, but by the time electricity had been invented, the newer refrigerators were electrified.  The Eddys maintained the old method of production, which required daily replacement of ice.

Eventually, Darius Eddy & Sons, marketing their refrigerators as “absolutely the best” on the market, could no longer compete with the larger and more efficient factories that produced electric refrigerators.  The firm ceased to exist after World War I, and the factory was sold to Andrews & Goodrich.  However, many Eddy-produced “ice chests” still exist and can attest to the quality workmanship of a refrigerator company established almost a century and a half ago in Dorchester.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2030

Photograph in the collection of the Dorchester Historical Society showing the Davenports who lived in the Samuel Davenport House – Martha, Josiah, Clarissa, Lucy, Elizabeth, Lydia, Hannah, Rebecca.  The house was at the corner of Bowdoin Street and Geneva Avenue, although Geneva did not exist at the time.

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