Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1980
Nineteenth-century view from belfry of First Parish Church looking east. The Old Mather School is in the foreground, then a gas-holder owned by the Dorchester Gas Light Company, and in the distance Commercial Point where there was a gasometer, approximately where the gas tank is located today.
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