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May 4, 1802, was a beautiful morning in South Dedham. It was Muster Day – a great holiday. Old soldiers dug out their uniforms – some...

Everyone is familiar with Norwood’s post office; it has been serving the community well from the same location since the 1930s. But, the...

The youngest child of Rev. Jabez Chickering and his wife Hannah Balch Chickering (See June 6, 2020, post), Hannah Chickering was born in...

Dr. Jarvis Gay was a veterinary surgeon who lived on Market Street and was often called out at all hours of day and night. At 78, he was...

Among those from South Dedham who volunteered to serve in the Civil War were three brothers: Charles, Benjamin, and Eugene Phipps. Their...

This area of the Old Parish Cemetery may appear empty but it did not always look this way. Plots 49, 59, and 60 (front to back) belonged...

Born in Vermont in 1819, educated at the University of Vermont and the Andover Theological Seminary, Rev. Moses McLellan Colburn was...

“...one of the most picturesque characters who ever brightened the life of our village.”

Oramal and Mary, and their children Henry and Adeline Cheney are all interred at Old Parish Cemetery in lot 107

He left his mark in Old Parish Cemetery.

Born on August 20, 1803, Catherine Gay Sumner was the oldest person in Norwood following the death of Mary Dean Chickering in 1897....

"...Elijah Jones was ramming the powder into the cannon with a wooden ramrod borrowed from a nearby foundry, the cannon exploded, ..."

A farmer, musician, and great marksman with a rifle...

This is an Old Parish Preservation Volunteers success story.

Born in Winthrop, Maine, 17 August 1835, Lewis G. Stone (1835-1907) worked on his grandfather’s farm as a boy. He came to the Boston area...

Norwood’s Orient Lodge of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons is the oldest fraternal organization in town. It was founded on February...

Born in South Dedham, Nancy Maria Chamberlain was educated by J. Nelson Stevens in South Dedham and attended a private school in...

By the time of the Revolutionary War, cities and towns across the colonies had begun to form and train fire companies to protect their...

Harriet Wales was born on December 30, 1827 in Orford, N.H., the daughter of Samuel and Hannah Wales. She was educated at the Academy at...

Terror at the Tavern