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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 area has been associated with the growth and development of Dedham since the community was established in 1636. Its most notable structure is the Norfolk County Courthouse, a National Historic Landmark. [2] It also includes the Old Village Cemetery. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. [1]
Its county seat is Dedham. [2] The county was named after the English county of the same name. [3] Two towns, Cohasset and Brookline, are exclaves. Norfolk County is included in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Norfolk County is the 24th highest-income county in the United States with a median household income ...
The first street Montague laid out, modern day Church Street, [k] was the first street in Dedham to be laid out with house lots on either side, as opposed to simply being a road to connect one farm to another. [160] 1792 - St. Paul's Church offered their building for use of the courts, but it was in such poor condition that the county declined ...
The Dedham Parkway, a two-lane road, extends southwest from this junction, exiting the park soon afterward. It passes a junction with Georgetowne Drive, and then with Alwin Street, before crossing into Dedham and reaching its southern terminus, a junction with Harding Terrace (the cross street), and Dedham Boulevard (its southerly continuation).
For 45 of the first 50 years of Dedham's existence, one of the 10 selectmen who served most often also served in "the one superior [the town] recognized, the General Court." [ 107 ] In colonial Massachusetts, each town sent two deputies to the General Court each year.
The original boundaries were roughly Village Avenue on the north, St. Paul's Church in the east, land later added by Dr. Edward Stimson in the south, and the main driveway off Village Avenue in the west. [3] It remained the only cemetery in Dedham for nearly 250 years until Brookdale Cemetery was established. [4]
St. Mary of the Assumption Church (commonly referred to as St. Mary's) is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, in the Archdiocese of Boston. The first church was constructed in Dedham Centre in 1857 and it was formally established as a parish in 1866. In 1880 the parish built a larger church on High Street, towards ...