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The town’s most well-known activists, Lucy Stone and her daughter Alice Stone Blackwell, were active in many spheres, especially advocating the rights of women. Horticulturists include Samuel Downer, Marshall Pinckney Wilder and the Clap family, whose Clapp’s Favorite pear is still popular.
Sep 15, 2023 · Dorchester, a former town of Suffolk co., Mass, situated on Massachusetts Bay, 4 miles S. of Boston, on the Old Colony Railroad and the New York & New England Rail road. It is now the 16th ward of Boston, to which it was annexed in 1869.
Dec 12, 2007 · Clapp, Ebenezer, 1809-1881; Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.) Call number 2618363 Camera Canon 5D External-identifier urn:oclc:record:1046584048 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier historyoftownofd00dorc Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t80k2b106 Ocr_converted
The innovative ways of the Society were evident in a By-Law proposal that "women should be admitted upon equal terms with men," a move which not only lent a liberal and humanistic aspect toward historic preservation, but doubled the organization's membership.
In Massachusetts: Constitutional framework. …first recorded meeting was in Dorchester in 1633, when citizens were summoned by the roll of a drum. A year later Charlestown organized the first board of selectmen, the emergence of such local government balancing the power of the colony’s executive.
Born in 1845 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Mary Eliza Mahoney was the eldest of three children of Charles Mahoney and Mary Jane Mahoney. As a black woman coming of age in Civil War-era America, her career options were severely restricted, but she was determined to pursue nursing from the time she was a teenager.
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The Historical Society is headquartered in the William Clapp House and also operates several other historic house museums in Dorchester, including the James Blake House (c.1661), and Captain Lemuel Clap House (Clapp Houses) which are open for tours on third Sunday of each month from 11 AM to 3 PM.
