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Take a walk with us and get to know the women who helped shape Boston. 

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Anna Harris Smith (1843 – 1929)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Charlotte C. Johnston (1845 – 1917) and Sarah Jane Frances Johnston (1850 – 1925)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
17th Century
Arts & Culture

Dorchester North Burying Ground: Ann & Betty

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
18th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Elida Rumsey Fowle (1842 – 1919)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Medicine

Elizabeth Stanton Chadbourne (1855 – 1930)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Business

Ethel Lennox (1910 – 1984)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
20th Century
Medicine

Frances C. Kissell (1922 – 2003)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
21st Century
Government & Public Service

Free Home for Consumptives: Elizabeth A. Power

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Medicine

Geraldine Pindell Trotter (1872 – 1918)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Hannah Glidden Myrick (1871 – 1973)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
20th Century
Medicine

Hepzibah Clarke Swan (1757 – 1825)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
18th Century
Philanthropy

Isabel Hayes Chapin Barrows (1845 – 1913)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Julia Knowlton Dyer (1829 – 1907)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Philanthropy

Lucy Anne Kirk (1859 – 1934)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Medicine

Mary Hannah Hanchett Hunt (1830 – 1906)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Sarah Baker (1805 – 1866)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Business

Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
18th Century
Arts & Culture

St. Mary’s Infant Asylum

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
20th Century
Medicine

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