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Pages in category "Government of Dedham, Massachusetts" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The first town meeting held in Dedham was on March 23, 1637. [4] Most of the proprietors were present, and it is believed that most of them must have been living in Dedham by then. [4] For the first fifty years of Dedham's existence, it enjoyed a stable, tranquil government. [5]
Dedham (/ ˈ d ɛ d ə m / DED-əm) is a town in, and the county seat of, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on Boston 's southwestern border, the population was 25,364 at the 2020 census .
The history of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635–1699, begins with the first settlers' arrival in 1635 and runs to the end of the 17th century. The settlers, who built their village on land the native people called Tiot, incorporated the plantation in 1636.
Mother Brook and the Mills of East Dedham. Damianos Publishing. ISBN 978-1-941573-66-2. Parr, James L. (2009). Dedham: Historic and Heroic Tales From Shiretown. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-750-0. Slafter, Carlos (1905). A Record of Education: The Schools and Teachers of Dedham, Massachusetts 1644-1904. Dedham Transcript Press. 1642-3.
The first transatlantic direct dial telephone call was made by Sally Reed in Dedham, Massachusetts, to her penpal, Ann Morsley, in Dedham, Essex, in 1957. [124] It was witnessed by Reed's teacher, Grace Hine, Dedham's former chief telephone operator of 39 years, Margaret Dooley, Selectman Arthur Lee, and several representatives of New England ...
Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635-1890. Dedham Historical Society. Lockridge, Kenneth (1985). A New England Town. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-95459-3. Levy, Barry (1997). "Girls and Boys: Poor Children and the Labor Market in Colonial Massachusetts". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 64: 287– 307. JSTOR ...
Massachusetts shares with the five other New England states the New England town form of government. All land in Massachusetts is divided among cities and towns and there are no unincorporated areas, population centers, or townships. Massachusetts has four kinds of public-school districts: local schools, regional schools, vocational-technical ...