James Blake, 1624-1700 The following is from Francis Blake. Increase Blake of Boston, His Ancestors and Descendants. (Boston, 1898). The text seems to be taken almost verbatim from Samuel Blake. Blake Family: A Genealogical History of William Blake, of Dorchester, and...
Columbia Road at Bellevue No. 74 Photograph of Roy Wilkes, bay pacing gelding. Owned by Solly Wolfson. Published in The Dorchester Gentlemen’s Driving Club. Year Book 1905. Edited and compiled by Ernest H. Morgan. The house in the picture is the Samuel B....
Codman Square No. 1047 Postcard. Caption on front: Washington Street, Codman Square, Dorchester, Mass. 105378. Postally unused. On verso: C. T. American Art. In 1654 the government of Massachusetts Bay Colony built a road to connect the Roxbury Meeting House with the...
Charles Dickens in Dorchester Article by Anthony Mithcell Sammarco entitled “Dickens in Dorchester,” published in the Dorchester Community News, January 22, 1999. PDF1023 Sammarco Charles Dickens in Dorchester Jan...
Camp McKay, Italian Prisoner of War Camp No. 15261 Camp McKay During World War II there was a prisoner of war camp near Carson Beach for Italian prisoners of war by the name of Camp McKay. The prisoners were allowed out on liberty from time to time, and many of them...
