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Our Dorchester (Boston), MA real estate website provides a wealth of information for home buyers and home sellers. Below, you will find information on the history and culture of Dorchester (Boston) as well as links to more detailed information such as demographics and schools. You may view a virtual tour, search homes for sale, and access information on different types of properties such as condos, farms, foreclosures, and vacation homes. This website will give you everything you need to buy or sell a home in Dorchester (Boston), MA.
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Dorchester (Boston) MA Community Profile & History
Dorchester, Massachusetts is Boston's largest neighborhood and also its oldest, founded a few months before the city itself. It is the birthplace of the first public elementary school in America, the Mather School, established in 1639. The school still stands as the oldest elementary school in America.
In 1765, chocolate was first introduced in the United States when Irish chocolate maker John Hannon imported beans from the West Indies and refined them in Dorchester, working with Dr. James Baker, an American physician and investor. They soon after opened America's first chocolate mill and factory in the Lower Mills section of the neighborhood, and the Walter Baker Chocolate Factory operated until 1965. The neighborhood's historical diversity is exhibited in its architecture, from the old Victorian homes of wealthy Bostonians to the multi-family dwellings of later groups of immigrants. In Victorian times, the community became a popular country retreat for Boston elite, and developed into a bedroom community, easily accessible to the city -- a streetcar suburb. The mother and grandparents of John F. Kennedy lived in the Ashmont Hill neighborhood while John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald was mayor of Boston.
Largely rural until its annexation by Boston in 1870, the neighborhood has since grown into a bustling cultural hub for the region. Its main thoroughfare, Dorchester Avenue, connects many close-knit neighborhoods and thriving commercial districts of all kinds. The oldest surviving home in the city of Boston, the James Blake House, is located at Edward Everett Square, a few blocks from the Historical Society. Although unconfirmed by radiocarbon dating, its year of construction is conjectured as 1648, 1661 or 1680. Dorchester is also home to the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the John F. Kennedy Library.
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