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Dedham

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Dedham , town (1990 pop. 23,782), seat of Norfolk co., E Mass., on the Charles River, a suburb of Boston; inc. 1636. Primarily residential, the town has some light manufacturing. America's oldest frame house, the Fairbanks house (1636), is in Dedham, which is said to have had the first public school in America (1649). The county courthouse was the scene of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial (1921). Horace Mann practiced law in Dedham, and Fisher Ames was born there.

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Dedham

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Dedham, USA The town in Massachusetts is named after the village of Dedham, possibly ‘Dydda's Homestead’, in England whence some of the settlers came; the one in Maine after the town in Massachusetts.

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Dedham

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Dedham Essex. Delham [sic] 1086 (DB), Dedham 1166. ‘Homestead or village of a man called *Dydda’. OE pers. name + hām.

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