Dorchester Historical Society

Dorchester Illustration no. 2216 Andrew Oliver

Andrew Oliver appears at the right in this copy of a painting at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.  Oliver was Lieutenant Governor of the Massachusetts leading up to the Revolution and was a loyalist.  His country house was located at the corner of Washington and Park Streets, later owned by Walter Baker of Baker chocolate fame.  The house was replaced by the Lucy Stone School in 1937.

Oliver “entertained the finest of the land, where gentlemen in powdered wigs and ladies in fine old silks used to dance the minuet …” The house was sold by Oliver’s estate to Col. Benjamin Hichborn, and in 1817 it went to his brother Samuel, “who entertained Gen. Lafayette, and Presidents Jefferson and Munroe” there.

Wikipedia: Andrew Oliver (March 28, 1706 – March 3, 1774) was a merchant and public official in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Born into a wealthy and politically powerful merchant family, he is best known as the Massachusetts official responsible for implementing the provisions of the Stamp Act, for which he was burned in effigy. He never actually carried out those duties, and was later commissioned as the province’s lieutenant governor 

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2215

Today’s illustration shows the J P O’Connell masons’ supplies building at a railroad crossing on Freeport Street in the 19 teens.  This was before the T took over.  The line was owned by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2214

 Attached are photos of the Dorchester Historical Society fundraiser at the Boston Harbor Distillery.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2213

 Dorchester Historical Society fundraiser today has been sold out.  Thank you.

 Today we have a photo of an auto that has been in an accident.  The accident photo is from January 1953.  Does anyone know where John J. Finn Electric Service was located?  Does anyone know the year, make, model of the car?

Thanks.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2212

Can you identify the houses in the attached photo?  We do not recognize them although they are/were Dorchester houses.  We don’t know if the houses still exist.

Thank you.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2211

One of the companies that occupied the same site as the new Boston Harbor Distillery was the Putnam Horseshoe Nail company.  The attached illustration is a scan of one of their advertisements showing why you should buy the Putnam nail.

Enjoy history at the Dorchester Historical Society’s fundraiser at the new Boston Harbor Distillery.  You have been to the Boston Winery with us; now we can see the distillery next door.  Tickets are available at www.DorchesterHistoricalSociety.org for the September 20th event.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2210

Enjoy history at the Dorchester Historical Society’s fundraiser at the new Boston Harbor Distillery.  You have been to the Boston Winery with us; now we can see the distillery next door.  Tickets are available at www.DorchesterHistoricalSociety.org for the September 20th event.

One of the companies that used the same site and the same building was the Lawley Shipyard.  Today we have an illustration from a 1931 advertisement showing the launching of the Intrepid, called a barkentine.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2209

The Colonial File Company was located on a part of Tenean Street that was obliterated by the Southeast Expressway.  They manufactured hand files for machinists.

If anyone is a keeper of old tools, would you please look at your files to see if any of them were manufactured by the Colonial File Company?  Thanks.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2208

Eat your history at the Dorchester Historical Society’s fundraiser t the new Boston Harbor Distillery in Port Norfolk.

Putnam Nail Company Hot-forged Sliders with City Head Horseshoe Nails (beef or portabella)

Lawley’s Shipyard Intrepid Salt Cod Cakes with cucumber tartar sauce and One Design Baked Beans with crispy pork belly (vegetarian also available)

Seymour’s Ice Cream Coffee Nutty Buddy Minis

Fundraiser: September 20th, 4-6 pm at Boston Harbor Distillery, 12R Ericsson Street, Dorchester

Buy tickets on the web at www.dorchesterhistoricalsocietyblog.org or by mail to: Dorchester Historical Society, 195 Boston Street, Dorchester, MA  02125

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Visit to Worchester Art Museum today included a view of a portrait of Sarah Morton by Gilbert Stuart.

Sarah lived on Dudley Street in Dorchester in the Morton mansion designed by her cousin Charles Bulfinch.

Sarah’s publications include poems contributed to literary magazines. Her first long poem was published separately in book form in December, 1790, Ouabi: or The Virtues of Nature, An Indian Tale. In Four Cantos. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer Andrews, 1790. Other works include: Beacon Hill. A Local Poem, 1797; The Virtues of Society. A Tale Founded on Fact, 1799; My Mind and Its Thoughts, in Sketches, Fragments, and Essays, 1823.