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August 23, 1861- Dedham's troops were shipped out to the front lines near Washington, D.C. [330] 1861-1854 - During the Civil War, the Dedham Transcript wrote that "Almost to a man," the Catholic men of Dedham "answered Lincoln's call," [309] [295] and sadly "no church in Dedham lost so many men in proportion to their numbers as did St. Mary's."
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[18] [10] Two years later, on January 1, 1645, by unanimous vote, the Town of Dedham authorized the first taxpayer-funded public school in the United States. [19] [20] [21] [10] It is believed the success of Dedham's school helped convince the Great and General Court to enact a law mandating schools in every community. [5]
In the mid-1800s, the Transcript was published by John Cox, Jr., and edited by Samuel H. Cox. [2] [a] By 1980, the Transcript-- then called the Daily Transcript-- was the flagship of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included the News-Tribune of Waltham and three weekly newspapers in West Roxbury-Roslindale (neighborhoods of Boston), Newton and Needham (suburbs west of Boston).
Major developments in Dedham include the Jewish Rashi School, a $30 million building on the 162-acre campus of Hebrew SeniorLife's NewBridge on the Charles in the fall of 2010. [1] The 82,000-square-foot LEED-certified school opened in the fall of 2010 with 300 students in kindergarten through eighth grade and room to grow the population. [ 1 ]
Dedham: Historic and Heroic Tales From Shiretown. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-750-0. Rudd, Edward Huntting (1908). Dedham's Ancient Landmarks and Their National Significance. Dedham Transcript Printing and Publishing Company. Schiff, Stacy (2022). The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams. Little, Brown & Co. ISBN 9780316441117. Warren, Charles ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 10.6 square miles (27 km 2), of which 10.4 square miles (27 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) (1.79%) is water. Dedham is made up of a number of neighborhoods: In the geographical center of town is Oakdale.
In 1847, Norfolk built an office building at 4 Pearl Street in Dedham Square. [4] For the next 40 years, the building also housed the Dedham Institution for Savings, [4] the Dedham Bank, and served as a home for the Norfolk County grand jury. [5] Throughout the early to mid 1900s, the company quickly grew and expanded to various states in the ...