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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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Anna Harris Smith (1843 – 1929)

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

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

Elida Rumsey Fowle (1842 – 1919)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Medicine

Elizabeth Stanton Chadbourne (1855 – 1930)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Business

Hepzibah Clarke Swan (1757 – 1825)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
18th Century
Philanthropy

Julia Knowlton Dyer (1829 – 1907)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Philanthropy

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890 – 1995)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Philanthropy

Sarah Baker (1805 – 1866)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Business

Site of Boffin’s Bower

Chinatown•
19th Century
Philanthropy

Site of Home of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Philanthropy

Site of YWCA “Working Girls Home”

Chinatown•
19th Century
Philanthropy

South End House and Children’s Art Centre

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Walter Baker & Company

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Business

Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) and Lina Frank Hecht

Roxbury•
19th Century
Philanthropy

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