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Hyde Park, Norfolk, MA
Alpheus Perley Blake is considered the founder of Hyde Park. He was the organizer in 1856 of the Fairmount Land Company and the Twenty Associates, which developed the Fairmount Hill on the western side of Brush Hill Road in Milton. This led to the establishment of a bridge over the Neponset River and a new station on the New York and New England Railroad, which is today's Fairmount Station. In addition to Blake, The Twenty Associates included William E. Abbot, Amos Angell, Ira L. Benton, Enoch Blake, John Newton Brown, George W. Currier, Hypolitus Fisk, John C. French, David Higgins, John S. Hobbs, Samuel Salmon Mooney, William Nightingale, J. Wentworth Payson, Dwight B. Rich, Alphonso Robinson, William H. Seavey, Daniel Warren, and John Williams. Within a few years, the two land companies had merged and growth in the area accelerated. By 1867, the settlements had grown to the point where there were 6 railroad stations in the area. A formal petition was made to the General Court of the Commonwealth and, after settling land and boundary disputes with Dedham and Milton, the Town of Hyde Park was incorporated on April 22, 1868 in Norfolk County from the settled land in Dorchester (Grew's Woods and the Hyde Park Land Company development), Milton (Fairmount) and Dedham (Readville). It remained a part of Norfolk County until 1912, when the town voted in favor of annexation to the City of Boston in Suffolk County. wikipedia
Hyde Park includes: Glenwood Ave., Stoney Brook Reservation, Sunnyside, Clarendon Hills, and Fairmount.
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Sturtevant Blower Works, Hyde Park, Mass.
"The birth of the American fan industry had its origin in the mind of a Maine shoemaker, Benjamin Franklin Sturtevant, an inventor and mechanical genius, who was born into a small farming family in Norridgewock, Maine on January 18, 1833...
[In 1860] he founded the B.F.Sturtevant Co..., opening a small shop at 72 Sudbury St..., employing 7 or 8 men making shoe peggers and pegs...
By 1866, the business had grown to the point where Sturtevant was employing nearly 50 men - all making fans...
The death of the founder in 1890 ushered in a new era for the company..." www.sturtevantfan.com
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1630 - Hyde Park is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1868 - Hyde Park is incoporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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Hyde Park Massachusetts, 1890
Hyde Park, situated in the northeasterly part of Norfolk County, adjoining Boston on the south, is a new, beautiful and progressive town. The West Roxbury district bounds it on the northwest, the Dorchester district on the northeast, Milton on the southeast, and Dedham on the southwest. The town ship is nearly of lozenge shape, with the longest axis varying little from north and south. The assessed area is 2,406 acres. Trees occupy some 250 acres, beside those along the streets.
There were but nine farms (embracing 582 acres) reported in the last census; their aggregate product in that year having a value of $25,314. The greenhouse product alone made up more than one half of this sum. On the entire eastern side the Milton Hills lift their picturesque slopes; one of the group, Brush Hill, occupying a considerable space in the town along the border. Through the eastern section the Neponset River winds northward, furnishing power for mills at Readville in the south and for other mills ... Read MORE...
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1895 - Hyde Park
Hyde Park, a post-village of Norfolk co., Mass., in Hyde Park township, on the Neponset River, and on the New York & New England and Old Colony Railroads, 7 or 8 miles S. by. W. of Boston. It has 6 churches, a high school, a grammar-school, a savings-bank, 2 newspaper offices, and manufactures of cotton, curled hair, machinery, paper, morocco, chemicals, edge-tools, rubber, and woollen goods. Pop. of the township in 1890, 10.193.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
1895 - RAILROAD WRECKS. FOUR MEN WERE KILLED AND MANY INJURED.
The Engineer Responsible For the N. Y. N. H. and H. Road Accident - A Broken Axle Causes the Wreck on the Pennsylvania Road.
Hyde Park, Mass., Oct. 25 - A rear end collision occurred here on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, in which one man - G. M. AUSTIN, a brakeman -- was killed, a woman fatally injured, and 12 other passengers, including Congressman ELIJAH A MORSE, were more of less seriously hurt. The list of injured is as follows:
MRS. WILLIAM ROSS of Cambridge, fatally injured internally.
Congressman ELIJAH A. MORSE of Canton, both hands and arms badly cut.
A. W. BRAGG, 58 Clifford street, Roxbury, injured about the head and face.
MISS ELLA DONOVAN, 178 Harrison avenue, Boston, injured about the chest and nose.
J. F. MAGUIRE of Roxbury, injured about the head and face.
MRS. J. F. MAGUIRE, injured about the head and face.
MRS. MARY BARNES of Malden, injured internally.
MRS. J. BURNS of Hyde Park, injured about the head and face.
MRS.... Read MORE...
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1912 - January 1 - Hyde Park is annexed to Boston
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1916
Hydepark, a post-village of Norfolk oo., Mass., in Hydepark township (town), on the Neponset River and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 8 miles S. by W. of Boston. It is the seat of the Blue Hill Observatory. The town, which also comprises Readville, Clarendon Hills, Hazlewood, and Fairmount, has manufactures of cotton, curled hair, machinery, paper, morocco, rubber, and woollen goods. Pop. of the town in 1900, 13,244.
Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
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