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Abigail “Abbie” Ballou Heywood (1829 – 1918)
Southern Dorchester
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Cedar Grove Cemetery—Home for Aged Colored Women Gravesites
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Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858 – 1937)
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Cordelia Harmon: The Boston Home (1822 – 1883)
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Dorchester Woman’s Club: Clara Ripley (1855 – 1931) & Ella Whiton (1857 – 1932)
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Eliza Ball Hughes (1808 – 1892)
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Elizabeth Ogilvie
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Emilie Bethmann (1844 – 1928) & Freida Bethmann (1868 – 1951)
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Grace Lonergan Lorch (1903 – 1974)
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Grace Susan Nies Fletcher (1885 – 1991)
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Harriette Newell Woods Baker (1815 – 1893)
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Hebrew Children’s Home (Hecht House) Ladies Helping Hand
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Home of Elsie Phelan Larsen (1881 – 1915)
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Home of Gladys Edson Locke
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Industrial School for Girls
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Jeremiah E. Burke High School
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Josephine Preston Peabody (1874 – 1922)
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Julie Herne (1880 – 1955) & Chrystal Herne (1883 – 1950)
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Louise Chamberlain Purington (1844- 1916) & Ella Gilbert Ives (1847 – 1913)
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Lucy Stone (1818 – 1893) & Alice Stone Blackwell (1857 – 1950)
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Mary Whitmarsh (1853 – 1943)
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Neponset Drying Works Fire
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Pauline Frederick (1883 – 1938)
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890 – 1995)
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Susan Fessenden (1840 – 1932)
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Toni Bullock (1923 – 2011)
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Walter Baker & Company
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