Heart of Dorchester “The Heart of Dorchester.” PDF1051 Sammarco Codman Square Heart of Dorchester June 1991 pdf version of this article by Anthony Sammarco, published in the Dorchester Community News, June 28,...
PDF1048 Sammarco Great Neck pdf version of an article entitled History: The Great Loss of Great Neck by Anthony Sammarco published in the Dorchester Community News on June 26,...
No. 14917 Glovers Corner from Picturesque Boston Highlands, Jamaica Plain and Dorchester, 1895 The buildings at the right are gone, replaced by a parking lot for school buses, a gas station, and the dBar restaurant and Dunkin Donuts. The building at the left still...
No. 5021 Advertisement in Fire Engineering magazine, April 1949, featuring a picture of eight-year-old Thomasina De Beneditto who pulled the fire box alarm when she observed a fire in a nearby factory in Dorchester, Massachusetts. At the time the Gamewell Company...
You may have seen the book Boston Firsts written by Lynda Morgenroth. She mentions a Boston first that occurred in Dorchester—the manufacture of chocolate by John Hannon in 1764. As it turns out, this claim for first may not be true. The Brown family of Providence is...