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Ashmont Hill By Dorothy Wyman Martin, May 19, 1972

Ashmont Hill By Dorothy Wyman Martin, May 19, 1972

No. 15827 53 Alban Street, April 22, 2016 [Note Dorothy has a couple of contradictory sentences in her memoir ...
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Daly Industrial School by Priscilla (Harper) Gimple

Daly Industrial School by Priscilla (Harper) Gimple

Daly Industrial School by Priscilla (Harper) Gimple, 2017 No. 1307 Postcard. Caption on front: Daly Industrial ...
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Fred MacDonald oral history

Fred MacDonald oral history

No. 15438 Dorchester Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee Frederick MacDonald (Alan ...
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Harry Adams Hersey, 1870-1951

Harry Adams Hersey, 1870-1951

No. 22095 Harry Adams Hersey, circa 1920 Harry Adams Hersey was born on April 22, 1870, in Dorchester.  He ...
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Mary Murray, formerly Mary C. Jacoppo, 2017

I was born in Dorchester on Dean Street, December 15, 1936, then moved to West Cottage Street as a baby, then ...
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Memories of 10 Paisley Park

Memories of 10 Paisley Park

Memories of 10 Paisley Park No. 23885 10 Paisley Park, August 2018 No.  5387  Scan of detail from ...
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Memories of Virginia Ledegang Mucciaccio, March 2006

Memories of Virginia Ledegang Mucciaccio, March 2006

No. 12042 Everett School on Sumner Street. I attended the old Edward Everett School, which was behind a fire ...
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Mrs. Eastman and the Ice Cream Cone

Charlie O'Hara, who has lived on Ashmont Hill since the 1940s, recalled an event at the Archer drug store at the ...
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Reminiscences of my Father Deacon Ebenezer Clapp (1771-1860) By Hepzibah (Clapp) Sumner

Reminiscences of my Father Deacon Ebenezer Clapp (1771-1860) By Hepzibah (Clapp) Sumner

No. 19456 Ebenezer Clapp House built about 1848, 636 Columbia Road [Transcribed by Jim Cooke, May 1997; the ...
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Sarah Greenwood School and area by Roberta Daner

I attended Sarah Greenwood Elementary School from 1937 to 1942.  I was 4 years old. Let me first talk a little ...
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The Great Pool Hall Caper by Walter D. Levy

from The Jewish Magazine. April 2011, Passover ...
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The Story of Wellesley Park by Adelaide M. Robertson

The Story of Wellesley Park by Adelaide M. Robertson

No. 22075 Wellesley Park plan September 1, 1897, Suffolk County Book 2487 page 627. A plan of land of Wellesley ...
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