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Meet Our Women

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

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Abigail “Abbie” Ballou Heywood (1829 – 1918)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Education

Cedar Grove Cemetery—Home for Aged Colored Women Gravesites

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858 – 1937)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Cordelia Harmon: The Boston Home (1822 – 1883)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Medicine

Dorchester Woman’s Club: Clara Ripley (1855 – 1931) & Ella Whiton (1857 – 1932)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Philanthropy

Eliza Ball Hughes (1808 – 1892)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Elizabeth Ogilvie

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Emilie Bethmann (1844 – 1928) & Freida Bethmann (1868 – 1951)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Education

Grace Lonergan Lorch (1903 – 1974)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Education

Grace Susan Nies Fletcher (1885 – 1991)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Harriette Newell Woods Baker (1815 – 1893)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Hebrew Children’s Home (Hecht House) Ladies Helping Hand

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Education

Home of Elsie Phelan Larsen (1881 – 1915)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Gladys Edson Locke

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Industrial School for Girls

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Education

Jeremiah E. Burke High School

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Josephine Preston Peabody (1874 – 1922)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Julie Herne (1880 – 1955) & Chrystal Herne (1883 – 1950)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Louise Chamberlain Purington (1844- 1916) & Ella Gilbert Ives (1847 – 1913)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Medicine

Lucy Stone (1818 – 1893) & Alice Stone Blackwell (1857 – 1950)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Mary Whitmarsh (1853 – 1943)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Business

Neponset Drying Works Fire

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Business

Pauline Frederick (1883 – 1938)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890 – 1995)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Philanthropy

Susan Fessenden (1840 – 1932)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Toni Bullock (1923 – 2011)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Business

Walter Baker & Company

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Business

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