Norwood’s Orient Lodge of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons is the oldest fraternal organization in town. It was founded on February 2...

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

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

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

He was a ‘gentleman’ farmer living on the family’s Tiot farm...

Small pox, a contagious and painful disease with a very high mortality rate, was a constant threat in colonial Massachusetts. In late 177...

Edwin Thompson was born in 1809 in Lynn, Massachusetts where he was educated at a Quaker School. As a teenager he took up the abolitionis...

Harrison G. Park was born in 1896 and graduated from Brown University in 1824. Following his graduation, he studied theology and law. He w...

Mary Dean was born in the John Dean House on Dean Street in South Dedham on June 14, 1797. She was the daughter of John Dean (one of six ...

Josiah Warren “Shout” Talbot was a very interesting personality. The master of the South Dedham school in 1836, he was the son of Josiah ...

Hannah Balch was the youngest daughter of Rev. Thomas Balch, first pastor of the Second or South Parish of Dedham, and his wife, Mary Sum...

Francis Tinker, apothecary and for 23 years the town clerk, passed away on June 6, 1896 at his home on Cottage Street. He was 80 years, 5...