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...
Nicholas Clap, 1612-1679 no. 1296 His gravestone has not been found in the Dorchester Old North Burying Ground, although the approximated location is known. Nicholas was the progenitor of the Clapp family that owned the property where the Dorchester Historical...
Lucy Anne Kirk, 1859-1934 no. 23761 The following paragraph is from the Upham’s Corner trail from the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail website Lucy Anne Kirk, a homeopathic physician, was born in Dorchester and decided at an early age that she wanted to be a nurse. After...
