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...
Transportation – MBTA – Ashmont Station No. 4574 Postcard. Real photo postcard of Ashmont Station headhouse. Ca. 1930. No. 12447 Ashmont Station Dedication 10-21-2011, photo from Bob Rugo...
Dorchester Description, 1654 Johnson, in his Wonder Working Providence, thus speaks of Dorchester in 1654. “The forme of this Towne is almost like a Serpent turning her head to the Northward; over against Tompson’s Island, and the Castle, her body and...
