Monthly Archives: October 2022

Dorchester Illustration 2590 Alice Stone Blackwell, 1857-1950

Dorchester Illustration 2590 Alice Stone Blackwell, 1857-1950 The Dorchester Historical Society will host a Zoom program on Sunday, November 6, at 2 pm, about the 50,000 women who registered to vote after the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the … Continue reading

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Dorchester Illustration 2589 Lucy Stone

Today we have a scan of a print made from an 1844 Daguerrotype in the Prints and Photographs Division of Library of Congress showing Lucy Stone as a young woman. Born in West Brookfield in 1818, Lucy Stone came from … Continue reading

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Dorchester Illustration 2588 Emily Fifield

Dorchester Illustration 2588 Emily Fifield Mrs. Emily A. Fifield was born in Weymouth on Feb. 12,1840.  Her father, Thomas B. Porter, was a lumber dealer in the town and had wharfs on the Monatiquot River which passes out into the … Continue reading

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Dorchester Illustration 2587 Elisha B. Worrell

Dorchester Illustration 2587 Elisha B. Worrell Elisha B. Worrell was a wholesale fruit merchant in Boston and lived on Trull Street in Dorchester until 1897, when he moved to 98 Melville Avenue.  In 1910, he and his wife, Helen, moved … Continue reading

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Dorchester Illustration 2586 Coffin Valve Company

Dorchester Illustration 2586 Coffin Valve Company The Coffin Valve Company was located at the end of Tolman Street next to the railroad lines.  The company became a supplier of large valves to the Metropolitan Water Works in Boston and to … Continue reading

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