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...
The Converging Cultures of the Neponset River Estuary by Richard Heath No. 99 Detail from 1831 map showing mouth of Neponset River Introduction The Neponset River Estuary is the convergence of not only two ecosystems but two cultures. The Estuary is where the...
