About Me

Dorchester, MA, United States

I share all sorts of less well-known (maybe sometimes even pretty interesting) stuff about my chosen community. We call it "Dot" - the place is a six square mile substantial chunk of southeastern [lower righthand corner of] Boston. Often left off official maps, Dorchester is Boston's largest and oldest neighborhood. Founded in 1630, the town of Dorchester is older by a few months than the original small Boston "proper" town peninsula that now holds Downtown, North End and Beacon Hill. Dorchester was annexed to Boston in 1870. "By the 1860s the city of Boston, which had annexed the town of Roxbury, needed all or part of Dorchester in order to complete a drainage plan for the city. The voters of Dorchester gave their approval to annexation on June 22, 1869. The town, which had been the first in New England to establish the town meeting, held its last such conclave on December 28, 1869. The annexation took effect on January 4, 1870." (from Dorchester Historical Society's website)