Hospitals and Health
The Hospitals and Centers Serving DorchesterIn the first years of settlement, families provided health care to the best of their own ability. By the eighteenth-century, professionally-trained doctors appeared, followed by the first hospital, the St. Mary’s Infant Asylum.

Read this article by Anthony Sammarco, published in the Dorchester Community News, August 25, 1995:

Edward Everett School
Edward Everett (1794-1865), a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, a distinguished orator and ...

No. 15431 Elbridge Smith School, Dorchester Avenue at Centre Street.
The Elbridge Smith school building ...

12046 Ellen H. Richards School, 80 Beaumont Street, photograph from Boston City Archives.
Ellen H. ...

No. 20326 Ellison-Parks School, 108 Babson Street, Mattapan, photograph from Google Street View, June, ...

No. 1373 Emily A. Fifield School, 25 Dunbar Avenue, photograph from 2002.
Emily A. Fifield School ...

No. 11094 Florence Nightingale School, published in 1915 report of the Boston School ...

No. 4021 Frank V. Thompson School, 110 Maxwell Street, photograph from March, 2004.
Frank V. Thompson ...


No. 10275 Gibson School on School Street, built 1857.
No. 1202 Atherton School, Columbia Road near ...

No. 233 Postcard. Gilbert Stewart [sic] School, postally unused, circa 1910.
Located at 27 Richmond ...

10200 Grover S. Cleveland School, photograph November 28, 2008.
Grover S. Cleveland School (Middle)11 ...