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<h1>Volunteers at the Dorchester Historical Society, 2009</h1>
<p>Edward Everett Square is rich in its history of community. English Colonists first settled at this crossroads in 1630, a place with evidence of Native American habitation from 10,000 years ago. Edward Everett Square is the site of the America’s first town meeting (1633), first tax supported school (1641), and still features the Blake House, the oldest house in Boston built in 1640. Dorchester was a largely agricultural community that changed dramatically in the late 1800’s when large country estates were divided to create three-decker housing for new immigrant populations. Throughout these changes, civic government, local control and strong family traditions thrived. </p>
<p>Today the area still represents a crossroads of people and activism. There are more union halls in Dorchester than any other community in Massachusetts, while more public meetings are held here than anywhere else in Boston. Political and social organizations, youth and Veteran groups, peace, civic and historic associations thrive and work to serve the members of the community. It is a place where people and their sense of place matter; whether they grew up and raised their families here, or have just moved in. </p>
<p><em>“This is the place I grew up. It is not the most beautiful place in the world, but, I look around at the people, and the people are very ordinary people; they have weaknesses and they have faults, everyone does, but they are good people. They are deserving of having something to take pride in. I think we need that. And I think, too, there is tremendous value in connection - with one’s neighbors and one’s neighborhood, with all the people in one’s neighborhood. I think that is really important because there is so much alienation and so much isolation in this world of so much transience. If you can bring community fabric and community connection to the neighbors, if I can do anything to give that gift, it would be a gift to myself.”</em></p>
<p>— John McColgan, 2003</p>
<p><strong>Image courtesy of the Dorchester Historical Society</strong></p>
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