ON THE 15TH DAY OF APRIL,1978 5:20 PM. MRS. GERTRUDE THOMPSON WAS FATALLY INJURED BY A MOTORCAR 10 FEET NORTH OF THIS SPOT THIS PLAQUE IS GIVEN TO THE EARTH TO MEMORIALIZE HER TILL ETERNITY. HER...
Submitted by @MaryAnnHogan525
Quincy Homestead 1686 Quincy, MA Childhood Home of Dorothy Quincy Hancock (1747 - 1830), Wife of Governor John Hancock Owned & operated in private partnership by The Commonwealth of Ma DCR &...
1630 - 1930 WILLIAM HUTCHINSON'S GRANT IN WILLIAM HUTCHINSON'S HOUSE NEAR THIS SPOT HIS WIFE ANNE TARRIED ON HER WAY TO RHODE ISLAND, EXILED FROM MASSACHUSETTS BY THE GENERAL COURT IN APRIL,...
JOHN WINTHROP, JR. BLAST FURNACE HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AN HISTORICAL LANDMARK BY AMERICAN SOCIETY OF METALS IN 1644,JOHN WINTHROP JR, BUILT THE FIRST COMMERCIAL BLAST IRON FURNACE IN AMERICA AT...
Joseph Finnegan Park at Port Norfolk in Dorchester, Boston. This was a former industrial site that housed the Shaffer Paper Company. Now an oasis of life with restored wetlands and an important...
ABIGAIL ADAMS BIRTHPLACE ABIGAIL SMITH ADAMS, THE WIFE OF JOHN ADAMS, 2ND PRESIDENT, AND MOTHER OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, 6TH PRESIDENT, WAS BORN HERE IN 1744. Submitted by @MaryAnnHogan525
FIRST POWDER MILL Near this site stood the "mill for making of powder at Unkety or Dorchester Mill" where gunpowder was manufactured for carrying on King Philip\'s War in 1675. After serving...
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Submitted by Ben Becker
IN MEMORY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF DORCHESTER AND OF THE TOWNSPEOPLE WHO FOUGHT FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE COLONIAL WARS 1675-1763 REVOLUTIONARY 1775-83 SECOND WITH ENGLAND 1812-13 MEXICAN...