MyDorchester Photo Contest

Congratulations to Doreen Treacy for being first to identify last week's photo as the Cedar Grove Cemetery!

 

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This week's illustration is a photo of the Stoughton School, the oldest surviving wooden school-house in Boston. 
 
"The only surviving school-house from among those built in the 1850s and 1860s and the oldest surviving wooden school-house in Boston, the Stoughton School is located on River Street.  The name Stoughton had already been used for a school in Neponset. 

 
In January, 1856, the Washington School opened in Neponset, combining the Stoughton and Neponset Schools, freeing up the name Stoughton. The school on River Street at the Lower Mills, which opened in March, 1856, was named in honor of Gov. William Stoughton, Dorchester's most prominent citizen of the latter half of the seventeenth century."
 
The Illustration of the Day is sent out via email by Earl Taylor of the Dorchester Historical Society. If you would like to get these daily images, please visit this site and join the group. Questions? Call 781-272-6700.