Charles Follen Adams (born 21 April 1842 in Dorchester, Massachusetts– 8 March 1918) was an American poet.
Dorchester appears fictionalized in Douglas How's humorous book Blow Up the Trumpet in the New Moon (1993).
Five Canadian soldiers were killed in the disturbances, four of whom were buried in St Margaret's Churchyard, with the fifth, Gunner John Frederick Hickman, being buried in Dorchester, New Brunswick.
Born in Dorchester, New Hampshire; attended the common schools and Wentworth Academy; learned the machinist's trade; moved to New Jersey in 1866 and settled in Long Branch, New Jersey; builder of railroad equipment; president of the Long Branch City Bank.
Sargeant's parents immigrated to the U.S. from Barbados and he grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, "one of Boston's mostly minority neighborhoods".
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At Old Sarum the road connected with the Portway to Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) and London; and from Badbury Rings roads led to the harbour at Hamworthy (Moriconium) and to Dorchester (Durnovaria).
On February 2, 1943, the German submarine U-223 spotted the convoy on the move and closed with the ships, firing a torpedo which struck the Dorchester shortly after midnight.
Ashley Ridge High School is a secondary school located in Dorchester County, South Carolina, USA, and is the newest high school in Dorchester School District 2.
Located in South Boston, Dorchester Heights is the only site in the park that is not on the Freedom Trail.
Brunei investors bought The Dorchester on Park Lane in London in 1985 for US$50 million and in 1996 BIA formed the Dorchester Collection, a conglomerate of luxury hotels in UK, USA, France and Italy which includes it.
They originally stretched the Ford Zephyr, later moving on to the Ford Granada upon which a number of versions such as the Minster, Dorchester, and Grosvenor were based.
New York Times Bestselling author Dennis Lehane, another native of the Boston area, who was born in Dorchester, wrote the novels that were adapted into the films Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island.
The later kingdom of Wessex was centred on the counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, and Wiltshire, but the evidence of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is that the kingdom of Cynegils was located on the upper River Thames, extending into northern Wiltshire and Somerset, southern Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, and western Berkshire, with Dorchester-on-Thames as one the major royal sites.
Other works on display include Washington at Dorchester Heights, which was hung in the Memorial Continental Hall in Washington; The Old Drummer of the Revolution, which was placed in the Old State House in Boston; the Boston Tea Party, which was hung in the hall of the Ancients and Honorables; and The Death of Cuchullan, which is on display at Boston College.
On the eastern bank to the north-east is the historic town of Dorchester with its ancient Abbey.
Olmsted wanted the Emerald Necklace to continue via the Dorchesterway to the shore of Boston Harbor’s Dorchester Bay and thus form a "U" shape.
His defeat in an at-large county councilmanic election led to a subsequent action on the part of the United States Justice Department which resulted in a consent decree forcing Dorchester County to adhere to the Supreme Court's Baker v. Carr ruling of one man, one vote and the end of at-large races for single county councilmanic seats as well as affecting the drawing of lines in other county and state elections.
Quest Real Estate Partners (headed by local businessman Ken Hendricks) buys Dorchester Corporation of Canada’s share of Beloit Mall.
Edward Everett Square, in Dorchester, Boston, is an intersection of Columbia Road, Massachusetts Avenue, East Cottage Street and Boston Street, and named after a former Governor of Massachusetts, Edward Everett.
She attended schools in Dorchester and Mount Wollaston, graduating from North Quincy High School in 1934.
While her husband was at council meetings in Newark, Elizabeth Simcoe spent much of her time in the company of Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester) and his wife, Lady Dorchester.
Prince Maurice left 1,200 infantry and approximately 200 cavalry to garrison Bristol before marching to Dorchester and personally taking command.
On February 2, 1943 the German submarine U-223 spotted the convoy and fired a torpedo which struck the Dorchester shortly after midnight.
Green was of Allington, Dorset, but moved to Dorchester on 24 September 1634 because of his own and his wife's sickness.
Legislation has been proposed to create Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park to encompass the monument and other properties in Dorchester, Talbot and Caroline counties, as well as Harriet Tubman National Historical Park at several Tubman-related places in Auburn, New York.
Other frequencies are 97.1 MHz FM from Chedington (near Crewkerne), which is at 400 watts, but again directional in order to prevent interference with nearby Wessex FM from the Dorchester area, which broadcasts on 97.2 MHz FM.
Initially, he taught languages in Boston and suburbs, Dorchester, Lynn, and Revere.
Throughout most of its history the county was divided into fourteen hundreds, namely Bampton, Banbury, Binfield, Bloxham, Bullingdon, Chadlington, Dorchester, Ewelme, Langtree, Lewknor, Pyrton, Ploughley, Thame and Wootton.
Born James Herbert Fellowes, he was the son of James Fellowes of Kingston Maurward House near Dorchester, Dorset who was the youngest son of William Henry Fellowes of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire by his wife, Emma the daughter of Richard Benyon of Gidea Hall in Essex.
Rev. John Maverick (1578-1636) was the first minister of the First Parish Church of Dorchester in early colonial Dorchester, Massachusetts.
The nearness to the Iron Age hillfort of Wittenham Clumps and the Roman (and post-Roman) town of Dorchester show that the localised area was of great importance for many centuries, although the notion that Witta (and/or his family) were related to the later Royal House of Wessex, is unproven.
The first story, "Dorchester, Home and Garden," deals with a man who returns to the burnt-out Jewish district on Blue Hill Avenue, and the second, "Onan's Child", is a retelling of the biblical story of Onan.
Boston had already incorporated several formerly adjacent towns such as Roxbury, Dorchester, Brighton and Hyde Park.
McDonough was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the son of Catherine (née Bushe) and Frank McDonough, motel owners who emigrated from Ireland, with his mother coming from County Tipperary and his father from County Galway.
North Dorchester Middle School is a rural middle school located in the northern part of Dorchester County, just outside of the town of Hurlock, Maryland.
Various other remotely operated transmitting stations, including Devizes, Rugby, Leafield, Chipping Ongar, and Dorchester, were also used.
A portion of the thoroughfare located in the largely anglophone city of Westmount, between Clarke and Atwater, retains the name "Boulevard Dorchester", as does a portion in the mainly French-speaking Montréal-Est, where it is known as "Rue Dorchester."
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Shortly after Jean Drapeau was elected mayor in 1954, his administration ordered the destruction of hundreds of buildings along Dorchester.
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From the time of its formal naming in 1844, the street was known as "Dorchester Boulevard" in honour of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724–1808), Governor of the Province of Quebec and Governor General of Canada.
Born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, his education included a Bachelor of Arts in organic chemistry from the University of Toronto received in 1950, a Master of Science in organic chemistry from Dalhousie University received in 1952, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of London received in 1956, and a D.I.C. in organic chemistry from Imperial College London.
The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote a poem called "The Dorchester Giant" in 1830, and referred to this special kind of stone, "Roxbury puddingstone", also quarried in Dorchester, which was used to build churches in the Boston area, most notably the Central Congregational Church (later called the Church of the Covenant) in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.
In 2006 a Dorchester man spent three days in Dorset County Hospital with symptoms of heart seizure, after suffering a spider bite believed to be caused by Steatoda nobilis.
In 1998 Street Cred Magazine won an EMMA Humanitarian Award in the category of "Best Media Newcomer" at the Dorchester Hotel in London’s West End.
USAT Dorchester, a United States Army Transport famous for the "Four Chaplains" incident, converted from civilian cruise ship SS Dorchester
Whitehall, Dorchester County, Maryland, an unincorporated community in Dorchester County
He was born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, the son of Andrew Kinnear, who served in the first assembly for the province, and Letitia Boyd, both Irish immigrants.
Brymer was born at Bath, the son of John Brymer of Ilsington, Dorchester, Dorset and his wife Eliza Mary Tugwell, only daughter of George Tugwell of Crowe Hall, near Bath.
WRYR-LP (97.5 FM) is a low power radio station licensed to Sherwood, Maryland, USA, and the station serves portions of Anne Arundel, Calvert, Queen Anne, Talbot, Dorchester, and Caroline Counties, including Maryland’s capital city of Annapolis.