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The award-winning 2000 film State and Main was filmed in Dedham, and Alec Baldwin's character slept in the Endicott Estate. [71] [72] The 2014 film The Judge was filmed partly in Dedham Square, [73] showing the Norfolk Superior Court and First Church. Kathryn Bigelow's 2017 film, Detroit, was filmed inside the Dedham District Court. [74]
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.
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.
During the campaign, Dedham's Democrats held rallies to get out the vote on April 1, 1812, at Marsh's Tavern and April 2, 1812, at Lem Ellis' Tavern. [28] All parts of town represented at the rallies except the South Parish. [28] By 1836, Dedham "had long been a focus for the vigorous political activity popularly associated with the Jacksonian ...
Several times, people mistakenly walked into the Dedham Historical Society, thinking it was either the jail or the courthouse. [60] When Roscoe Ates tried to get in, courthouse personnel served him with a fake arrest warrant demanding that he appear at the courthouse. [60] The crime was the inspiration for the 1939 film Let Us Live. [59]
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."
The harvest failed three times in the decade preceding Dedham's founding and the plague was sweeping across the country. [3] Poverty was rampant in England and society could not support the sheer numbers of poor and orphaned subjects. [4] The colonies in North America were seen as a way to relieve some of the excess population pressure. [5]
Dedham held five illegal town meetings despite the Act. [11] At these meetings, they supported the Suffolk Resolves, the Continental Congress, the Continental Association, and acts to further embarrass anyone in Dedham caught drinking tea. [12] This included publishing the names of anyone "so devoid of patriotism" to drink tea as a traitor. [8]