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DID YOU KNOW?

The Dorchester Historical Society was founded in 1843 and incorporated in 1891.  Its purpose is "to collect, preserve, and disseminate knowledge of the history of that section of the City of Boston which was formerly the Town of Dorchester; to hold, and aid in the preservation of, historic buildings and sites in the area; to care for, and from time to time, exhibit such articles of historic or antiquarian interest as may come into its possession.

QUOTE

“Our Ancestors joined together to create one stronger than the many and we are here continuing that tradition.”

Gil Solomon, Shaman, Massachusett Ponkapoag Tribal Council, Dedication of Edward Everett Square Artwork,
October 16, 2010

 

LIST OF LINKS:

Dorchester History

• Dorchester Historical Society
• Dorchester Athenaeum
• The Mary and John Clearing House

Edward Everett Square Renovation and Pubic Art project

• Laura Baring-Gould Studios
• Boston Art Commission Interview with Laura Baring-Gould
• Boston Art Commission / Public Art Boston
• City of Boston Public Works Department:
  • Engineering Division
  • Public Improvement Commission
• Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen Local 3 Apprentice Program
  Mount Vernon Street, Dorchester

Project Press

• Dorchester Reporter, Dorchester MA USA
• Square Renovation Bears Fruit - The Boston Globe

Local Civic Associations surrounding Edward Everett Square

• John W. McCormack Civic Association
• Annapolis Street Neighborhood Eye Crime Watch and Civic Association
• Columbia Savin Hill Civic Association
• Eastman Elder Civic Association
• Groom Humphreys Civic Association
• Dorchester civic associations

Dorchester Press

• Dorchester Reporter
• Upham’s Corner News Online
• Boston Globe
• Boston Herald
  

Historical Collections, Archives and photograph collections

• University of Massachusetts Boston Archives
  
• Meetinghouse Hill Reunion Web Site
  
• Massachusetts Historical Society
  
• City of Boston Archives
  
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts Archives
  
• Commonwealth Museum
  
• Museum of African American History
  
• Fruitlands Museum
  
• New England Historic and Genealogical Society
  
• Bostonian Society
  
• Historic New England
  
• Boston Athenaeum – Black Boston
  
• Boston Public Library
  
• Schlesinger Library
  
• UMass Amherst Library, Special Collections and University Archives,
  W.E.B. Du Bois
• Montpelier, The General Henry Knox Museum
  

Clapp Pear

• Dorchester Athenaeum
• He Who Hybridized the Clapp's Favorite Pear
• The Pears of New York by Ulysses Prentiss Hendricks (Clapp’s Favorite Pear Illustrations)
  

Community Organizations, Institutes and Research Centers

• Neponset / Ponkapoag Tribe Home Page
  
• College Bound Dorchester/Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses
  
• Louis D Brown Peace Institute
  
• Bobby Mendez Peace Legacy
  
• William Monroe Trotter Institute For The Study of Black Culture, Umass Boston
  
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
  
• The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequence
  
• VietAID
• Vietnamese Civic association
  
• Smedley D. Butler Brigade Chapter 9 Veterans For Peace
  
• Dorchester People for Peace
  
• CannonBall Jackman Foundation
  
• All Dorchester Sports League
  
• Greater Boston Labor Council
  
• Stellwagen (Cod Fish)
  
• Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
  
• Noah Historical Fish images
  

Dorchester Arts Organizations

• Dorchester Artists Collaborative
  
• Dot Art
  

Boston Arts Organizations

• Museum of Fine Arts
  
• Institute of Contemporary Art