No. 21902 Cannons for the War of 1812 at the Dorchester Historical Society The Dorchester Historical Society has acquired 2 brass cannons that were made for the New England Guards in 1814. The Guards used them in their encampments, including on Savin Hill,...
Bartlett Family from Savin Hill Memories From: “Name: Darlene Alberta Johnson” April, 2006 I have been researching my mother’s Savin Hill family for 28 years-filling many notebooks. My mother (13) & her sister(6) left Savin Hill as orphans in...
Town Government by Selectmen: Animal Control, Rences, Land Grants, Education and More 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...
Howard Avenue School The 1910 Atlas shows the Howard Avenue School faces Howard Avenue at the corner of Howard Avenue and Harlowe Street. The school’s annex, the Nathaniel Hawthorne School, sits behind the Howard Avenue School. Both building appear in the 1933...
Israel Stoughton built Dorchester’s first mill in 1634. The Dorchester Town Records contain an entry for Monday, November 3, 1633 that says “It is generally agreed that Mr. Israel Stoughton shall build a water mill, if he see cause.”[1] By the following January, the...
