30 Facts About Dorchester Boston

Dorchester is a Boston neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Originally, Dorchester Boston was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester Boston, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Dorchester Boston neighborhood has a very diverse population, which includes a large concentration of African Americans, European Americans, Caribbean Americans, Latinos, and East and Southeast Asian Americans.

Dorchester Boston is the birthplace of the first public elementary school in America, the Mather School, established in 1639.

Dorchester Boston's served as an evangelist to Stoughton's Native American servants, and the First Parish Church of Dorchester attempted to help Dorcas gain her freedom.

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In 1765, chocolate was first introduced in the American colonies when Irish chocolate maker John Hannon imported beans from the West Indies and refined them in Dorchester Boston, working with Dr James Baker, an American physician and investor.

Portions of the original town of Dorchester developed as the separate towns of Hyde Park, Milton, and Stoughton .

The Dorchester Boston apartment drew friends and followers like a magnet, according to [friend and roommate John] Bustamante, with 'untold numbers of visitors coming from the other schools.

In 1974, the University of Massachusetts Boston moved from Park Square in downtown Boston to Columbia Point in Dorchester.

Since the 1970s, UMass Dorchester Boston has expanded substantially, including building a new campus center in 2004 and a new science center in 2015.

Dorchester is located south of downtown Boston and is surrounded by the neighborhoods of South Boston, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park and South End, the city of Quincy and the town of Milton.

North Dorchester Boston includes the portion north of Quincy, East and Freeport streets.

The main business district in this part of Dorchester Boston is Uphams Corner, at the intersection of Dudley Street and Columbia Road.

South Dorchester Boston is bordered to the east by Dorchester Boston Bay and to the south by the Neponset River.

The main business districts in this part of Dorchester Boston are Fields Corner, at the intersection of Dorchester Boston Avenue and Adams Street, and Codman Square, at the intersection of Washington Street and Talbot Avenue.

The southern part of Dorchester Boston is primarily a residential area, with established neighborhoods still defined by parishes, and occupied by families for generations.

The northern part of Dorchester Boston is more urban, with a greater amount of apartment housing and industrial parks.

Dorchester Boston continued to receive immigrants from Northern European countries such as Ireland, Germany and Poland.

Dorchester Boston became more diverse than at any point in its long history, with many nationalities represented here.

Sections of Dorchester Boston have distinct ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic compositions.

The eastern areas of Dorchester Boston are primarily ethnic European and Asian, with a large population of Irish Americans and Vietnamese Americans.

In recent years Dorchester Boston has seen an influx of young residents, gay men and women, and working artists .

In 1984, the City of Dorchester Boston gave control of it to a private developer, Corcoran-Mullins-Jennison, who redeveloped the property into a residential mixed-income community called Harbor Point Apartments which was opened in 1988 and completed by 1990.

Corporate headquarters of The Boston Globe was located in Dorchester, having moved there in 1958 from downtown Boston.

In 1870 Dorchester was annexed to Boston and its schools became managed by the City of Boston.

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The current Dorchester Boston facility opened in 1925 on Peacevale Road to males, while the Talbot Avenue building was for females.

Urban Asthma Coalition in Dorchester Boston promotes collaboration among organizations and residents concerned about factors that affect asthma: the environment, quality of health care, access to health care, and education.

Geiger-Gibson Health Center located in the Harbor Point section near UMass Dorchester Boston is the oldest Community Health Center in the United States.

Dorchester Boston has available shelters for those in need, a homeless shelter by the name of Pilgrim church that is an adult shelter open to men only.

Dorchester Boston is home to many listings on the National Register of Historic Places.