My Dot Tour is a project of the Fields Corner Collaborative (FCC). FCC is a group of non-profit organizations concerned with touting the history and architecture of Fields Corner for increased economic development and social capital, as well as with supporting and strengthening youth leadership skills. The organizations include: the Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition, Dorchester Historical Society, Fields Corner Main Street, Historic Boston Incorporated, and SCI Dorchester/Dotwell. The 2011 Tour coordinator is Kate Balug.
2010’s My Dot Tour established a walking tour route, map, and live walking tour created and presented by teen participants.
My Dot Tour 2011 is a new and improved version of the tour that will emphasize residents’ contributions and will feature expanded methods of disseminating tour content through cell phone technology and other media. FCC thanks the Boston Foundation for Architecture for contributing grant funding for the Tour.
What’s your Fields Corner story?
Key Partners:
Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition, Dorchester Historical Society, Fields Corner Main Street, Historic Boston Incorporated, and SCI Dorchester/Dotwell
How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:
To contribute to or inquire about the tour, please contact mydottour [at] gmail.com.
The Dorchester Descendants project is working to locate, contact, and stay connected to descendants of Dorchester families, in Massachusetts, across the U.S. and beyond. We hope to spread the word about the treasures, the historical properties and artifacts belonging to the Dorchester Historical Society. We are eager to connect people who count Dorchester ancestry as part of their family heritage. The Director of the Dorchester Descendants project is Faith Ferguson, a public historian working in the Boston area with experience in research, interpretation, administration, and education for historic sites and houses. You can contact her at faith@dorchesterdescendants.org.
A growing (and ever incomplete) portal to Upham's Corner activities, Upham's Corner News Online seeks to create a permanent and stable archive of newsworthy events occurring in, and pertinent to, the Upham's Corner area.
How to get involved/application guidelines and procedures:
Upham's Corner News Online welcomes your ideas, content, photos - whatever you believe is relevant to the community, that is appropriate to share with the community and that will add to the tapestry that defines who we are.
We welcome all students to the Mather school, where effective teaching and learning prepares all students to reach high levels of achievement. As we strive to reach proficiency for all, students will go home each and every day knowing more than they did the day before.
College Bound Dorchester, Boston Visual Thinking Strategies Consortium, City Year, Staples, Boston Freedom Trail Foundation, America SCORES, Target, Heart of America Foundation, Boston Schoolyard Initiative, UMass Boston, The Windsor School, Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE), Boston Teacher Residency, The BELL Foundation, The Home for Little Wanderers, Arbour Counseling Services, ReadBoston, Boston Shines, First Parish Church, Chadwick Martin Bailey
Created:
11/22/2010
The Mather School is the oldest free public elementary school in North America.
The James Blake House (1661) is owned and operated by the Dorchester Historical Society. A recent restoration project has brought the house back to its circa 1895 appearance. See this article for an excellent write-up about the project.
Open May 16, 2-4pm and October 24, 1-4pm. Tours on the hour, last tour at 3pm
Mission:
The 1683 Pierce House is a rare known surviving example in the Boston area of a seventeenth century or First Period house. It documents period building practices, and the tastes and housing needs of one family, the Pierces, over more than three centuries. At different times, family members expanded and adapted their dwelling to meet new demands for space, function, comfort, privacy, and cleanliness.
The purpose of the Dorchester Historical Society, founded in 1843 and incorporated in 1891, is to collect, preserve, and disseminate knowledge of the history of that section of the City of Boston which was formerly the Town of Dorchester; to hold, and aid in the preservation of, historic buildings and sites in the area; to care for, and from time to time, exhibit such articles of historic or antiquarian interest as may come into its possession.
