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Saint Augustine Chapel and Cemetery is a historic church on Dorchester Street between West Sixth and Tudor Streets in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1818–19, it is the oldest Roman Catholic church building in Massachusetts; the cemetery, established 1818 is also the state's oldest Catholic cemetery.
St. Joseph Catholic Church: 1850 Roxbury Roman Catholic Evergreen Cemetery: 1850 Brighton Municipal 20 acres [35] [2] St. Mary's Cemetery 1851 Dorchester Non-Sectarian [36] [2] Mount Hope Cemetery: 1852 Roslindale / Mattapan: Municipal 125 acres [37] [2] Mount Calvary Cemetery 1866 Roslindale Non-Sectarian [36] [2] St. Mary's Cemetery 1867 West ...
The Dorchester South Burying Ground is a historic graveyard on Dorchester Avenue in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1814, it is the second oldest cemetery in Dorchester, after the North Burying Ground. It is a roughly 2-acre (0.81 ha) parcel on the west side of Dorchester Avenue, north of Dorchester Lower Mills.
The Dorchester North Burying Ground (or "First Burying Ground in Dorchester") is a historic graveyard at Stoughton Street and Columbia Road in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The burial ground was established in 1634, as the front sign reads [ 2 ] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and was ...
A large late-Roman and Christian cemetery has been excavated at Poundbury just to the west of the town, but little is known of Durnovaria's decline after the departure of the Roman administration. The name, however, survived to become the Anglo-Saxon Dornwaraceaster and modern 'Dorchester'. The residents of modern day Dorchester are known as ...
The architect for the 1903 building was T. Edward Sheehan of Dorchester, MA. Between 1906 and 1908 three Felician nuns from Buffalo were brought in to teach in the basement of the church. In 1911 a school was completed including a hall in the basement for parish functions.
In May 1869, the Catholic priest, Father James Augustine Healy from the Church of Saint James in Boston invited the Redemptorists to give a parish mission. Pleased with the success of the mission, Father Healy recommended to the Bishop that the religious congregation should establish a mission-house in Boston. [ 5 ]
Currently the site of a 325-acre park, Old Dorchester State Park offers visitors a glimpse into South Carolina's Colonial past. The park boasts one of the most well-preserved oyster-shell tabby forts in the country, St. George's Bell Tower, log shipping wharves, burial sites and cemeteries, as well as on-going archaeological digs that are still ...