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...
Theodora Kimball and her family lived on Greenbrier Street in Dorchester about 1910 and after.. She later married Henry Vincent Hubbard. 23865 Theodora Kimball from Simmons College 1908 https://lj.uwpress.org/content/25/2/169 “An important figure in landscape...
