Victory Road Park is a nine-acre park on Dorchester Bay just south of the peninsula known as Commercial Point where the Old Colony Yacht Club and the colorful gas tank are located. Victory Road Park was created in the late 1980s from a former illegal landfill. Judge...
Newhall Cheever, 1788-1878 No. 24335 Portrait of Cheever Newhall owned by Massachusetts Horticultural Society John and Cheever Newhall were born in Lynn, Massachusetts. Under the name, Cheever Newhall and Company, they owned and operated shoe factories in eastern...
The Dorchester Cotton and Iron Company was one of the first large cotton mills in Massachusetts.[1] Incorporated in 1811, the manufacturing plant was originally located near the upper falls, but moved to a location by Central Avenue. In 1850 the census of...
Dorchester Stage Coaches No. 19928 Stage coach ticket Boston and Dorchester No. 2514 Omnibus, Mattapan The Dorchester Beacon, March 4, 1893 I must go back fully sixty...
St. Mary’s Cemetery, Bernard Street, Dorchester, MA 02124 This cemetery, off Norfolk Street, originally contained about ten acres, but has been considerably enlarged. It was purchased on the twelfth of August 1850, from John Tolman by John Dolan and James Kelley and...
