Dorchester (colloquially referred to as Dot ) is a historic neighborhood of more than 6 square miles (16 km 2 ) in Boston, Massachusetts , United Kingdom. Initially, Dorchester was a separate city, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England. This dissolved municipality, Boston's largest neighborhood so far, is often shared by city planners to create two planning areas that are roughly equivalent in size and population to other Boston neighborhoods.
The neighborhood is named after the town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated on the ships of Mary and John, among others.
Founded in 1630, just a few months before the founding of Boston, Dorchester now covers a geographical area roughly equivalent to nearby Cambridge. It was still a major rural town and had a population of 12,000 when annexed to Boston in 1870. The rail and tram lines brought rapid growth, increasing the population to 150,000 by 1920. In the 2010 US Census the population was 92,115. Dorchester as a separate municipality will be ranked the top five of the city of Massachusetts.
It has a very diverse population, which includes large concentrations of African Americans, European Americans (with large American American and Polish American immigrant populations), Caribbean, Latin, and East Asia and Southeast Asia. Dorchester also has a significant LGBT population, with active political groups and the largest concentration of same-sex couples in Boston after the South End and Jamaica Plain. Most people over the age of 25 have finished high school or earned GED.
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History
Indigenous people
Dorchester was originally populated by the Neponset/Neponsett tribe in the country of Massachusett. For generations, they built their homes along the mouth of the Neponset River, which is an abundant source of food because fresh water meets saltwater. The Neponsett "concept of land ownership differs sharply from Europe.The Massachusett has no land, but what is on it or what it produces Neponsett has shells, beavers and trout from swamps and streams, planting fields from the hillsides and deer from the forest. "
As one of the first groups of Indigenous peoples to confront the British colonizers, the Neponset people experienced rapid population decline in the 17th and 18th centuries due to the violence perpetrated by British and infectious diseases brought by Europeans. Despite several centuries of struggles due to European settlement, Neponsett/Ponkapoag tribe members continue to live in the Boston area and have established tribal councils.
17th-century Settlement and merge
May 30, 1630, the Captain Squib of the ship Mary and John entered Boston Harbor and on June 17, 1630, landed a boat with eight men on the Dorchester coast, where it was a narrow peninsula known as Mattapan or Mattaponnock, and today known as Columbia Point (more popular since 1984 as Harbor Point). Those who boarded the ship that founded the city included William Phelps, Roger Ludlowe, John Mason, John Maverick, Nicholas Upsall, Captain Roger Fyler, Henry Wolcott, and others who would become prominent in the establishment of a new country. The original settlement, founded in 1630, is in what is now the intersection of Columbia Road and Massachusetts Avenue. (Although Dorchester was annexed more than 100 years ago to the city of Boston, this establishment is still celebrated annually on Dorchester Day, which includes celebrations and parades at Dorchester Avenue).
Most of the earliest Dorchester settlers came from the West of England, and some from Dorchester, Dorset, where Reverend John White was a major proponent of the Puritan settlement of the New World. (Rev. John White has been called the unknown champion of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, being detached from his heroic efforts on his behalf, he remains in England and never emigrated to the Colony he fought for.) The established city centered on Dorchester First Parish Church, which still exists as a Unitarian-Universalist church at Meeting House Hill and is the oldest religious organization in Boston today.
On October 8, 1633, the first American Town Meeting was held at Dorchester. Today, every October 8 is celebrated as a City Day Meeting in Massachusetts. Dorchester is the birthplace of the first public primary school in America, the Mather School, founded in 1639. The school still stands as the oldest primary school in America.
In 1649, Puritan missionaries, including John Eliot, embarked on a campaign to turn the Natives at Dorchester into Christianity. Eliot was given land by the city of Dorchester for his mission, where he founded church and school.
The oldest surviving house in the city of Boston, James Blake House, is located on Edward Everett Square, which is the historic intersection of Columbia Road, Boston Street, and Massachusetts Avenue, a few blocks from the Dorchester Historical Society. Blake House was built in 1661, as confirmed by dendrochronology in 2007.
In 1695, a party was sent to discover the city of Dorchester, South Carolina, which lasted only half a century before being abandoned.
18th century
In 1765, chocolate was first introduced in American colonies when the Irish chocolate maker John Hannon (alternatively spelled "Hannan" in some sources) imported seeds from the West Indies and refined them at Dorchester, working with Dr. James Baker, an American doctor and investor. They soon after opening the chocolate factory and the first chocolate factory in the Lower Mills section of Dorchester. Walter Baker Chocolate Factory, part of Walter Baker & amp; The company, operated until 1965.
Prior to the American Revolution, "The Sons of Liberty met in August 1769 at the Lemuel Robinson Tavern, which stands on the eastern side of Upper Street (Washington St.) near Fuller Street today.Supuel Robinson was a representative of the city during the Revolution and was appointed colonel in the army Revolution. "The Dorchester (in part of what is now South Boston) was also the site of the Battle of Dorchester Heights in 1776, which ultimately resulted in British refugee Boston.
19th century
Victorian Era
In Victorian times, Dorchester became a popular retreat for the Boston elite, and developed into a bedroom community, easily accessible to the city - a suburban streetcar. John F. Kennedy's mother and grandparents live in the Ashmont Hill neighborhood while John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald is Boston's mayor.
The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote a poem called "The Dorchester Giant" in 1830, and refers to a special kind of stone, "Roxbury puddingstone", also excavated at Dorchester, which was used to build churches in the Boston area, Congregation Center (later called the Church of the Covenant) in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston.
In 1845, the Old Colony Railroad crosses the area and connects Boston and Plymouth, Massachusetts. The station was originally named Crescent Avenue or Crescent Avenue Depot as the Old Colony Railroad station, then called Columbia until 1 December 1982, and then converted again to JFK/UMASS. This is the Massachusetts Bay Transportation railway railway station for the Red Line subway and the Plymouth/Kingston railway line, Middleborough/Lakeville and Greenbush.
In the 1840s and 1850s, a new wave of development took place on the waterfront overlooking Dorchester Bay (Park and Mill Streets in the Harrison Square Historic District, later known as Clam Point.) Famous architects who have contributed to one of the The most famous. significant and intact collections of the Itate Clam Point mansion include Luther Briggs, John A. Fox, and Mary E. Noyes. In the 1890s, Clam Point became famous as a summer resort with the Russell House hotel as its center and the establishment of the Dorchester Yacht Club on Freeport Street.
In the 1880s, the calf meadows at Columbia Point were used as Boston ditch channels and pumping stations. This great pumping station is still standing and in its day is a model for treating waste and helping to promote cleaner, healthier urban living conditions. It pumps trash into a remote maintenance facility on Moon Island in Boston Harbor, and serves as a model for other systems around the world. The system remains in active use and is the head of the Boston Sewer system, handling all municipal waste, until 1968 when a new maintenance facility was built in Deer Island. The pumping station is also architecturally significant as Roman Richardsonian designed by the architect of the city of Boston, George Clough. It is also the only remaining 19th century building on Columbia Point and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Annexation to Boston
Dorchester was annexed by Boston in pieces starting on March 6, 1804 and ended with complete annexation to the city of Boston after a vote was held in Boston and Dorchester on June 22, 1869. As a result, Dorchester formally became part of Boston in January. 3, 1870. It is also a historical reason that Dorchester Heights is presently regarded as part of South Boston, not modern Dorchester, since this was part of the Dorchester's surrender to Boston in 1804. The additional portion of the Dorchester was handed over to Quincy (in 1792, 1814, 1819, and 1855) and parts of the original city of Dorchester became a separate city from Hyde Park (1868 and later annexed to Boston in 1912), Milton (1662), and Stoughton (1726, itself later subdivided).
In 1895, Frederick Law Olmsted, architect of the Public Garden/Emerald Necklace and Boston Central Park, was commissioned to create Dorchester Park, to become a city forest for the growing Dorchester population.
In 1904, the Dorchester Historical Society included a Dorchester Day commemorating the Dorchester settlement in 1630. The annual event, Dorchester Day is a tablo of community events, highlighted by activities such as Landing Observation Day, Dorchester Day Parade with Dorchester Road day The first week of June, and as the final closing, the Communion Banquet.
The turn of the 20th century
There was also an increase in social activism at Dorchester in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dorchester became home to the first integrated racial environment, at Jones Hill. One of the inhabitants of the neighborhood, William Monroe Trotter, with W.E.B. Du Bois, helped establish the Niagara Movement, the predecessor of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Many voting options also live in Dorchester, including Lucy Stone.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Dorchester also saw a large surge of new immigrants from origins such as Ireland, Canada France, Poland, Italy, and African American migrants from the south. This is the era when the Dorchester triple decker-level apartment building was built.
1950s-present
In the early 1950s, Dorchester was also the center of civil rights activism. Martin Luther King, Jr. lived there for most of the time he attended Boston University for his PhD. "With the Boston Baptist community glued to his preaching and Coretta [Scott King] by his side, King's circle grows.The Dorchester's apartment attracts friends and followers like a magnet, according to [friends and roommates John] Bustamante, with 'countless number of visitors coming from Another roommate accommodates and feeds the visitors, who will join the civil rights discussions. "
During the 1960s 1980s, the Dorchester ethnic landscape changed dramatically. Jewish, Italian, and Irish populations were replaced with African, Asian and Caribbean populations.
The first community health center in the United States is Columbia Point Health Center in Dorchester. It opened in December 1965 and serves most of Columbia Point's public housing complex adjacent to it. It was founded by two doctors, Jack Geiger who had been at Harvard University faculty then at Tufts University and Count Gibson from Tufts University. Geiger has previously studied the first community health center and Community-Based Basic Care principles with Sidney Kark and colleagues while serving as a medical student in rural Christmas, South Africa. Columbia Point Health Center was still operating and was rededicated in 1990 as the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center.
In 1977, after an unsuccessful bid to have John F. Kennedy Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, close to Harvard University, damaged land at the Columbia Point end for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, designed by IM architects. Pei, and dedicated on October 20, 1979.
In the 1980s, the Blue Hill Avenue section of Dorchester had become a predominantly black community. During the 1990s, municipalities increased police presence and invested city money into the area for more street lighting.
On March 30, 2015, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate was dedicated by President Barack Obama. The Institute is open to the public on March 31, 2015.
Maps Dorchester, Boston
Geography
The Dorchester is located south of downtown Boston and is surrounded by South Boston, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, South End, and Quincy and Milton towns. Neponset River separates the Dorchester from Quincy and Milton. According to the US Postal Service, Dorchester includes zip code 02121, 02122, 02124, and 02125.
Parts and box sections
The Dorchester is the largest and densest neighborhood in Boston and consists of many smaller sections and squares. Because of its size of about six square miles, it is often divided for statistical purposes in the North and South Dorchester. North Dorchester covers the northern part of Quincy Street, East Street, and Freeport Street. The main business district of Dorchester is Uphams Corner, at the intersection of Dudley Street and Columbia Road. South Dorchester is bordered by east by Dorchester Bay and to the south by the Neponset River. Dorchester's main business district is Fields Corner, at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Adams Street, and Codman Square, at the junction of Washington Street and Talbot Avenue. Adjacent to Fields Corner is the Harrison Square Historic District, also known as Clam Point, which is noteworthy for the substantial residential collection of Italianate Mansard.
Dorchester Avenue is the main environmental backbone, running on the north-north path through all the Dorchester from Lower Mills to downtown Boston. The southern part of the Dorchester is basically a residential area, with established environments still determined by parishes, and occupied by families from generation to generation. The northern part of Dorchester is more urban, with the number of residential apartments and larger industrial parks. The South Bay Center and Newmarket industrial area are the main source of work and the Harbor Point area (formerly known as Columbia Point) is home to several major companies, including the Boston University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum campuses, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the American Senate United, and John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Different commercial areas include Bowdoin/Geneva, Fields Corner, Codman Square, Peabody Square, Adams Village, and Lower Mills. Its main residential areas include Savin Hill, Jones Hill, Four Corners, Franklin Field, Franklin Hill, Ashmont, Meeting House Hill, Neponset, Popes Hill, and Port Norfolk.
Demographics
Until the 1960s, the Blue Hill Avenue section of the Dorchester from Roxbury to Mattapan consisted mainly of American Jews who had lived there for generations. The environment of Neponset is mainly Irish-American. During the 1950s-1960s, many African-Americans moved from South to North during the Great Migration and settled on Blue Hill Avenue and nearby sections. While some Jewish-Americans are moving "up and down" to the suburbs, some banks and real estate companies in Boston are developing a blockbuster plan for the area. The Blue Hill Avenue area is "rearranged" so that only newly arrived African-Americans will receive mortgages for housing in that part. "White Flight" is prevalent. Then, Dorchester has another wave of immigrants, this time from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, Cape Verde, as well as other Latin American, Asian and African countries. Dorchester continues to experience immigration from Northern European countries such as Ireland and Poland. This makes Dorchester more diverse than any point in its long history, and is home to more people from more countries than ever before. These immigrants helped revive many areas around the neighborhood by opening ethnic shops and restaurants.
The Dorchester portions have different ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic compositions. The east of Dorchester (mainly between Adams Street and Dorchester Bay) is mainly ethnic Europeans and Asians, with a large population of Irish Americans and Vietnamese Americans, while the western, central and part of the southern part of the neighborhood are mainly African Americans. In Neponset, the southeast corner of the neighborhood, as well as parts of Savin Hill in the north and Cedar Grove in the south, Irish Americans retain their most visible identity. In the northern part of Dorchester and southwest part of South Boston is the Polish Triangle, where Polish immigrants are recently resident. Savin Hill, as well as Fields Corner, has a large population of Vietnamese in America. Uphams Corner contains the Cape Verde American community, the largest concentration of people from Cape Verde within Boston city limits. Western, central and southern Dorchester have large Caribbean populations (mainly people from Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago). They are mostly represented in Codman Square, Franklin Field and Ashmont, although there are also important figures at Four Corners and Fields Corner. A large number of African Americans live in Harbor Point, Uphams Corner, Fields Corner, Four Corners and Franklin Field. In recent years Dorchester has also seen the influx of young residents, gay men and women, and artists working (in areas such as Lower Mills, Ashmont Hill/Peabody Square, and Savin Hill).
American Community Survey - Estimates - 2013
American Community Survey (ACS) for Dorchester, from 2007-2011, estimates the total population is 113,975 people. A little over half were women, 52.6% or 59.914 and 47.4% or 54.061 were male.
In Dorchester, 68.4% or 77,980 native-born citizens and 31.6% or 35,995 people were born overseas, 50.1% or 18,024 of them non-US citizens. The largest racial group in the neighborhood is Black or African-American with 49,612 people or 43.05% of the population. People who identify themselves as white represent 26.102 or 26.99% of the community. Hispanic/Latin Accounts for 19.09% of the population with 19,295 inhabitants. The Asian region represents 9.6% of 10,990 citizens. The smallest race group is bi/multi-racial and they reach 1.9% (2,174) of the population.
According to the ACS survey, Dorchester has a population under 25 with 38.1% or 43,472 people and 33,162 (29.1% of the total population) of those under the age of 19 years. Between the ages of 25 to 64 years there are 59,788 or 52.6% of people and 10,715 people or 9.3% are over 65 years old. In Dorchester, about 61.9% or 70,503 people over 25, 23.5% or 16,582 people do not have a high school or GED certificate, 30.5% or 21,479 have a diploma or GED, 18.5% or 13,045 people have completed lectures, and 27.5% or 19,397 people have a bachelor's degree.
The ACS survey estimates there are 40,443 households around Dorchester, per capita income of $ 22,120 and an average income of $ 44,136. 13.1% or 5,286 households have reported earnings of less than $ 10,000. 27.3% or 11,020 households earning less than $ 19,999. 19.1% or 7,720 households earned between $ 20,000 to 39,999,16,5% or 6,651 households in revenue between $ 40,000 to 59,999. 19.7% or 7,977 households earned between $ 60,000 to 99,999. 15.3% or 6,174 households reported annual revenues of $ 100,000 to 199,999. Only 2.2% or 901 households in Dorchester make $ 200,000 or more per year. ACS Report 2011, Poverty affects 23.5% or 9,511 households and 24.3% or 9,820 households receive SNAP Benefits.
Transportation
The neighborhood is served by five stations in the fast transit service of the Massachusetts Transportation Authority Red Line (MBTA), five stations on the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed ​​Line, five stations on the Fairmount Commuter Train Route, and various bus routes. Over the past decade, the Dorchester branch of the Red Line has undergone major renovations, including four rapid transit stations rebuilt in Savin Hill, Fields Corner, Shawmut, and Ashmont. At the Ashmont station, the city of Boston and the state of Massachusetts partnered with private investors to create The Carruth, one of the country's first Transit-oriented developments (TOD).
Interstate 93 (along with Route 3 and AS 1) runs north-south through the Dorchester between Quincy, Massachusetts and downtown Boston, providing access to the eastern edge of Dorchester on Columbia Road, Morrissey Boulevard (just to the north), Neponset Circle (only to the south), and Granite Avenue (with additional on-landway at Freeport Street and from Morrissey Blvd in Neponset). Several other state routes cross the neighborhood, for example, Route 203, Gallivan Boulevard, and Morton Street, and Route 28, Blue Hill Avenue (so named because it leads out of town to the Blue Hills Reservation). Neponset River separates the Dorchester from Quincy and Milton. The "Dorchester Turnpike" (now "Dorchester Avenue") stretches from Fort Point Channel (now in South Boston) to Lower Mills, and once bombarded a horse-drawn tram.
Some of Dorchester's earliest streets have been renamed several times over the centuries, meaning that some names have come and gone. Leavitt Place, for example, was named one of the earliest Dorchester settlers, eventually becoming Brook Court and then Brook Avenue Place. Gallivan Boulevard was formerly Codman Street and Brookvale Street was formerly Brook Street. Morrissey Boulevard was formerly the Old Colony Parkway.
Economy
Throughout its history, the Dorchester has a period of awakening and economic recession. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Dorchester was devastated by the economic recession, high unemployment, and white flight.
In 1953, Carney Hospital moved from South Boston to its current location in Dorchester, serving the local communities of Dorchester, Mattapan, Milton, and Quincy.
In 1953, a major public housing project was completed on the Columbia Point peninsula in Dorchester. There are 1,502 units under development at 50 acres (200,000 m 2 ) soil. He was later known for his high crime rates and poor living conditions, and it went through a very bad period in the 1970s and 80s. In 1988, there were only 350 families living there. In 1984, the City of Boston gave control to private developer, Corcoran-Mullins-Jennison, who rebuilt the property into a residential community of income residents called Harbor Point Apartments which opened in 1988 and completed in 1990. It was the first federal housing project which will be converted into private housing, mixed housing in the United States. Harbor Point has won many recognitions for this transformation, including awards from the Urban Land Institute, the FIABCI Award for International Excellence, and the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence.
During the 2008 housing crisis in the United States, Hendry Street Dorchester became the epicenter of the media. In reaction, the city of Boston negotiated to buy some houses for only $ 30,000. It moves to seize other foreclosed properties where the owner has not paid taxes. The houses are renovated and added to the inventory of subsidized rental housing.
In 2008, plans and proposals were inaugurated and presented to the public hearings by Corcoran-Jennison Company to redevelop the 30-acre Bayside Exposition Center (120,000 m 2 ) site on the Columbia Point Peninsula into a mixed use village of storefronts and residences, called "Bayside on the Point". However, in 2009, the Bayside Expo Center property was lost in foreclosures at Corcoran-Jennison to a Florida-based real estate firm, LNR/CMAT, which bought it. Soon after, the University of Massachusetts Boston bought property from them to build a campus facility in the future.
The corporate headquarters of the Boston Globe is also located in Dorchester. In 2009, the New York Times , the current owner, laid the paper for the offer, which caused concerns from members of the local community, who had seen other large employers close their doors. After negotiations with their union and cost-cutting measures, the New York Times canceled its plans to sell the Boston Globe in October 2009, but the paper was relocated in 2017 to the city center Boston.
In the 20th century, many unions in Boston moved their headquarters to Dorchester. These included the Boston Teachers Union, the 103rd International Electrical Workers' International Brotherhood, the New England Carpenter Experts Council, the 718 Local Fire Brigade Association, among others.
Crime
Dorchester, with a population of about 130,000, is home to nearly a quarter of the entire population of Boston. In the early 1990s, Dorchester, along with the Roxbury and Mattapan neighborhoods, had the highest percentage of victims with violent injuries. Since the early 2000s, crime rates in Boston have declined. In the first three months of 2013, Boston's crime rate is reported to be down 15 percent, compared to the same time period in 2012. According to Dorchester Reporter crime maps, the more dangerous areas of Dorchester are west of Columbia Road, with criminal activity centered in the Blue Hill Avenue area. Safer parts of the environment include Savin Hill; Clam Point's historic neighborhood; Columbia Point, inhabited by most of Boston's UMass students; Ashmont Hill; Saint Mark's; Pope's Hill; Cedar Grove; Lower Mills, in the vicinity of Neponset, Gallivan, and Morrissey Boulevard; and Jones Hill neighborhood (with the third largest percentage of same-sex households in Boston after South End and Jamaica Plain).
Statistics
According to the Vibes Area website, the overall crime rate at Dorchester is 30% higher than the national average, and for every 100,000 people there are 10.55 daily crimes occurring in Dorchester such as; violent crime and property crime. The crime of property is much higher than the crime of violence. 831 out of 100,000 people are involved in violent crimes, and 3,021 out of 100,000 people are involved in property crimes.
Victims' Opportunity:
- Property crime = 1 in 34
- Cruel crimes = 1 in 121
- Evil = 1 in 26
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Public school
Students at Dorchester are served by Boston Public Schools (BPS). BPS assigns students based on applicant's preferences and student priorities in different zones.
Dorchester High School precedes the Dorchester annexation to Boston. At its founding, it was a men's school, first opened on December 10, 1852. In 1870, Dorchester was annexed to Boston and its schools were managed by the City of Boston. A substitute facility opened at Codman Square on Talbot Avenue 1901. The Dorchester facility is currently open in 1925 at Peacevale Street to the men, while the Talbot Avenue building is for women. In 1953, Dorchester High School was consolidated as a co-coaching school.
Currently, Dorchester has many high schools in the city. Dorchester Education Complex (formerly Dorchester High School) is at Dorchester. Schools within the Dorchester complex include the Public Service Academy, Edward G. Noonan Business Academy, and TechBoston Academy. In September 2009 the Noonan Academy of Public Service and Business Academy will merge into Edward G. Noonan Academy for Business, Public Service, and Law. Jeremiah High School E. Burke, a high school, is also located in Dorchester.
Other schools include:
- Roger Clap Innovation School K-5
- Boston Collegiate Charter School, grade 5-12
- Public School Charter Academy Codman, 9-12
- Paul A. Dever Primary School, K-5
- Edward Everett Elementary School, K1-5
- Lilla Frederick Pilot Middle School, 6-8
- Dr. Incident Elementary School William H. Henderson (formerly Patrick O'Hearn Elementary School), K-12
- Thomas J. Kenny Elementary School, K-5
- Primary School Mather, Pre School 5
- John W. McCormack School, 6-8
- Richard J. Murphy Elementary School, K1-8
- Homeschool Charter, K-8
- William E. Russell Elementary, K1-5
- Smith Leadership Academy Leadership School, 5-8
- The Lucy Rock School, K-5
- TechBoston Lower Academy (formerly Woodrow Wilson Secondary School), 6-9
- Uphams Corner Charter School, 5-8
Parish School
The Catholic Academy of Pope John Paul II of the Roman Catholic archdiocese in Boston operates the Columbia Campus, Dorchester Central Campus, Lower Mills Campus and Neponset Campus.
Other parish schools include:
- Boston College High School, 7-12
- SMA Cristo Rey Boston, 9-12, is located in the old building St. William Elementary (St. Margaret Elementary joined the St. William building as the first campus of the Catholic Academy of Pope John Paul II John Paul II moved the building and Cristo Rey Boston hired the St. William building)
- Elizabeth Seton Academy, 9-12
- St. Ambrose School - closed, K-8
- St. Angela School - (In 2008, closed and reopened as the Mattapan Square Campus of the Catholic Academy of Pope John Paul II)
- St. Ann Elementary School, K-8 (In 2008, closed and reopened as Neponset Academy of Catholic Academy of Pope John Paul II)
- St. Brendan School, K-6
- St. Gregory Elementary School, K-8 (In 2008, closed and reopened as Lower Mills Campus from Catholic Academy of Pope John Paul II)
- St. Kevin School, K-8 (closed 2008)
- St. Margaret Elementary School, K-8 (Closed and reopened as Columbia Campus from Catholic Academy of Pope John Paul II)
- St. Mark School, K-8 (In 2008, closed and reopened as the Campus Dorchester Central Catholic Academy of Pope John Paul II for a short time but has been closed.The building is still in operation and is used for various educational, social, religious purposes.
- St. School of Matthew, K-8
- St. Peter Elementary School, K-8 (closed in 2008)
- St. William School
Colleges and universities
- The University of Massachusetts Boston is an accredited urban public research university and the second largest campus of the University of Massachusetts system. Located at Columbia Point in Dorchester. The school offers associations, bachelors, master's and doctoral degrees. In terms of race and sex, schools have a diverse student population of about 13 thousand students at a time. Excluding financial aid, the average cost of tuition is 12 thousand in the state and 28 thousand from the state. Costs reflect good value seeing that there is an approximately 15: 1 faculty student ratio with different majors for learning. Approximately 20% are Business/marketing, 18% Health Professional, 12% Psychology, 12% Social Sciences, 7% Biology, 7% Security and Protection Service, 6% Garden and Recreation. The school economy has been consistently productive since its inception. In the last twenty years school campuses have evolved and flourished. Colleges have educated and socialized developers see that 95% of instate students will work full-time.
- Labourà ©  © College is a college of Roman Catholic colleagues offering associate degrees in nursing and health sciences. It's located on Carney Hospital's campus near Lower Mills in Dorchester.
Public library
The Boston Public Library operates six neighborhood branches in Dorchester.
- Adams Street Branch
- Codman Square Branch - Originally opened at 6 Norfolk Street in 1905 and named after a preacher named John Codman. The branch office moved to its current facility, designed by Eco-Texture, Inc., in 1978.
- Branch Angle Field
- Grove Hall Branch
- Lower Mills Branch
- Uphams Branches
Healthcare
Carney Hospital is located at 2100 Dorchester Avenue. Carney Hospital provides more than 500 doctors with primary care and specialist doctors. They provide services such as behavioral health, cancer care, heart & amp; vascular, gynecological services, neurology, orthopedics, rehabilitation and physical therapy, along with many other services. Carney Hospital aims to provide the Dorchester community with health and fitness. Carney Hospital has been serving the community since 1863. The hospital is affiliated with the Tufts University Medical School, making it a teaching and training hospital for upcoming doctors in both internal medicine and family medicine.
Codman Square Health Center is a community-based outpatient health service located at 637 Washington Street. They have been a functioning clinic since 1979 with the dream of "To build the best urban community in America". They employ about 280 multilingual staff members, most of whom live in the neighborhood around Codman Square.
At Dorchester there is a local organization under the name of the Asma Urban Coalition. The organization aims to promote collaboration between other organizations and concerned citizens about factors in the community that affect asthma. Factors in society tend to be environment, quality of health care, access to health care, and education. Citizens can join active committees to promote better health and awareness. The goal is to collaborate with communities to change policy through administrative advocacy that affects community members suffering from asthma. They have succeeded in providing 1,000 healthy, affordable new homes a year, green and healthy cleansers for local schools, city programs that work with health professionals and law enforcement officers to further improve the quality of housing for the children of the area. The Geiger-Gibson Health Center located at Harbor Point near UMass Boston is the oldest Public Health Center in the United States.
Housing
Most of the Dorchester population, about 63.3% or 72,239 people, live in rental housing. The gross monthly gross rent is $ 1,450, which totals $ 17.40 per year and exceeds the income of almost 30% of the population. An estimated 40,180 people (35.3%) live in occupied homes and 1.4% or 1556 people live in group homes/shelters.
Excluding government-owned housing, Dorchester has 15,918 residential buildings including 4,344 or 27.3% single-family homes, 3,674 or 23.1% two family homes, 3,919 or 24.6% of three-family homes, and 3,981 or 25.0% units condo. The average selling price for all types of residential property is 244,450. In 2013, there are 52 foreclosures petitions reported at Dorchester, representing 22.41% of the 232 foreclosures reported for the entire City of Boston. Furthermore, 37 of the 147 documented distress buildings in Boston are located in Dorchester.
Security
Boston Police District C-11 Dorchester, located 40 Gibson St, Dorchester, MA 02122. To create an environment of trust, and empower the environment is the goal. There are more than 50 community meetings held each month allowing the police department to partner with elderly people, citizens, businesses and religious Dorchester leaders. The police department also works closely to provide communities with crime prevention and security tips. "Communication is the lifeblood of our environment"
Dorchester has a shelter for those in need, a homeless shelter under the name of the Pilgrim Church (the children's service of Roxbury) which is an open adult shelter for men only. This shelter is located at 540 Columbia Road Dorchester MA This shelter is run by the Pilgrim Church and offers night shelters, food, clothing, showers, first aid and other support services. The shelter also provides afternoon transport from Boston to the shelter. The shelter was originally established in 1990 by a positive lifestyle and is now currently under the direction of United Homes Adult's service.
Urban policy
Income - Massachusetts sales tax rate is 6.25%, income tax is 5.20%. The per capita income is $ 18,226 which includes adults and children. Average household income is $ 30,419.
Public policy issues
There are many controversial public issues that are on the agenda of action by the city hall in Boston. These controversial issues have been worked on for months and even years and many of Dorchester's population are directly affected along with their quality of life. Local residents and activists work together to find ways to address problems not only for them and their children, but also for their environment. Some issues are public security, high crime volume, poor educational resources, and lack of housing for low-income families. The purpose of the organization is to provide an environment with
- Good Work/decent wage
- Education for children
- Home
- Health resources & amp; Access
- Public Safety & amp; Policy Relationships
Two organizations working closely to address this issue; First Parish Dorchester and The Bowdoin Geneva Resident Association.
City budget package
Mayor Marty Walsh proposes a budget for 2017 234567890 - = - 0987654334567890-09876543223456789985jj, nhhhh where included is a five-year capital plan intended to make improvements to Dorchester infrastructure. These new projects involve the construction of a new library and also modernizing the Boston Public Library branch in Dorchester. The city parks are another investment Walsh wants to make in a five-year capital plan. The plan is to add more light to Doherty-Gibson Park at Fields Corner and another $ 3.7 million to make repairs at Harambee Park next to Franklin Field. The remainder of the budget is intended to be used to complete projects already started in Savin Hill, King Street, Hemenway, Dower Avenue, and Ronan Park.
Community resources
Education
Based on the 2010 Dorchester Census it has 114,235 for the total population. About 15,530 are under the age of eighteen.
Food
Former president of Trader Joe's opened a non-profit retail food store called the Daily Table,
Entertainment
Dorchester has a variety of attractions, including John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, Boston Winery, Dorchester Brewing Company, Boston Harbor Distillers, Strand Theater, Commonwealth Museum, Boston House Concert, Franklin Park Zoo, Neponset Rivery Greenway, and Lower Neponset River Trail. Dorchester owns Fields Corner which is a commercial center that is one of Dorchester's largest business districts. Mission Fields Corner states will continue to be a thriving, friendly, and secure area with diverse businesses. There are a number of restaurants and clothing stores and pubs. Fields Corner is known for its Vietnamese restaurants, as well as its large Irish population that brings with it the local pub atmosphere. Adjacent to Fields Corner is a 11-hectare park known as Hilltop Park, which offers views of Dorchester Bay and plenty of green spaces. In summer, there is a market of fresh produce in the mall parking lot.
Activities and recreation areas
Park
- Pope John Paul II Park: Pope John Park's reservation is about 66 acres, and is open year-round for the Dorchester residents. In the past it was used as a landfill and also a drive-in theater. It also serves as a barricade between Dorchester Town, Boston and Neponset River waterfront. The park now gives residents various resources such as; Picnic facilities, football pitches, play areas, walking paths, as well as extensive grounds for planting trees and shrubs. Dorchester Park: The Dorchester Park was founded in 1861 and is located in the southern part of Dorchester, especially in Cedar Grove and Lower Mills; it is also across from the Neponset River. Dorchester Park is 30 hectares and many events are happening in this historic park, one of which is the Annual Classic Car Exhibition and Family Family Day . Dorchester is also listed on the National Registrar of Historic Places .
- Franklin Park: Founded in 1885, this 485-acre park includes the perfect paved walkway to walk, walk and enjoy the view, tennis court, baseball field, golf course and basketball court. Also something that is part of Franklin Park is New Englands Franklin Park Zoo, where people go to explore 9 major exhibits containing over 220 animal species. Other activities open to the public are the Kite and Bike festival which traditionally takes part in the Franklin park. This event usually always landed on Saturday after Mother's Day. Nearly 100 bicycles are provided by Baitons Bike, these bikes range from all sizes for children and adults. The Dotbike volunteers then lead a tour around the park so people can get used to riding bicycles. In addition to riding bicycles, people are also allowed to fly kites with their families.
Bicycle Path
- Lower Neponset River Trail: This 2.4-mile strip stretches from Norfolk's historic port of Norfolk in Dorchester, through John Paul II Pope Park, across from Granite Avenue via Neponset Marshes, and through the Lower Mills area to Central Avenue in Milton. This trail is used for running, cycling, and also walking. The Neponset River experiment is adjacent to Butler station, Milton Village, and Central Avenue Red Line which is the way some people who may not have their own transportation can go to trial.
- Neponset River Green mode: Neponset River The total Green way of 5 miles, providing scenery to be seen while walking, running, or cycling like; salt marshlands at Pope John Paul Park II and Tenan Beach at the mouth of the Neponset River. Convenient trail bordering three Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority stations on the red line like; Butler, Milton, and Central Avenue.
- DotGreenway: green paths for pedestrians and cyclists have been proposed to connect Talbot Avenue and Park Street along the tunnel of the MBTA Red Line line between Ashmont and Fields Corner stations.
Sites of interest
The Dorchester is home to many lists on the National Register of Historic Places.
Additional interesting sites include:
Famous people
Notes and references
Note
References
Further reading
External links
- From the Boston Public Library Map Collection:
- 1831 Dorchester Map by Edmund J. Baker
- 1850 Dorchester Map by E. Whiting
- 1868 Dorchester and Quincy maps by Dudley and Greenough
- 1880 The Dorchester Plan by the Boston Engineering Department.
- Dorchester Community Website
- Map of Dorchester Boston - Open Space Plan, Boston City
- Map of the Boston Redevelopment Authority from Dorchester
- [1] is located at Northeastern University Library, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.
- My Dot Tour, an open-source tour, "multimedia, youth-led walking from Fields Corner." This is the "Corners Collaboration project."
- Archive collection of Dorchester, University Archives, and Special Collections, Joseph P. Healey Library, Boston University of Boston
- Dorchester Atheneum, a website devoted to Dorchester history
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