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The Noble and Greenough School, commonly known as Nobles, is a coeducational, nonsectarian day and five-day boarding school for students in grades nine through twelve. It is near Boston on a 187-acre campus that borders the Charles River in Dedham, Massachusetts. The current enrollment of 614 students includes a balance of boys and girls. Nobles was founded in 1866 by George Washington Copp No...
Please add profiles representing the "founding families" of Dedham. Profiles must be set to "public.". The resources collected on the media gallery are available for all - and please do contribute more.==Background==From the Dedham Historical Society :There was a land hunger in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, almost from the beginning. As early as 1634, the Newtown (Cambridge) folk were seeking p...
The Ancient Burial Place of Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts: In 1638, Joseph Kingsbury provided a portion of his land at the south end of his lot to enlarge the accommodation for the dead. The boundaries of the burial place continued the same for about 175 years, an area of about one acre. For a period of one hundred years, this was the only place of burial in the town of Dedham, and som...