Draper Playground

Draper Playground is a park in Suffolk, Massachusetts. Draper Playground is situated nearby to the neighborhood Germantown, as well as near the hamlet East Dedham.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brookdale Cemetery and Fairbanks House.

Brookdale Cemetery

Cemetery

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Brookdale Cemetery is an historic cemetery in Dedham, Massachusetts, United States. More than 28,000 people are buried there. Mother Brook runs behind it.

The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1641, making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing.

Norfolk County Courthouse

Courthouse

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The Norfolk County Courthouse, also known as the William D. Delahunt Courthouse, is a National Historic Landmark at 650 High Street in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dedham and West Roxbury.

Dedham

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Dedham is a town in, and the county seat of, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on Boston's southwestern border, the population was 25,364 at the 2020 census.

West Roxbury

Suburb

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West Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bordered by Roslindale and Jamaica Plain to the northeast, the village of Chestnut Hill and the town of Brookline to the north, the city of Newton to the northwest, the towns of Dedham and Needham to the southwest, and Hyde Park to the southeast.

Readville

Neighborhood

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Readville is part of the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston. Readville's ZIP Code is 02136. It was called Dedham Low Plains from 1655 until it was renamed after James Read, the owner of the Dedham Manufacturing Company along Mother Brook, in 1847. Readville is situated 2 miles southeast of Draper Playground.

Draper Playground

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.26019° or 42° 15′ 37″ north

Longitude

-71.16052° or 71° 9′ 38″ west

Elevation

102 feet (31 metres)

Open location code

87JC7R6Q+3Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29871539

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4935051

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Germantown and East Dedham.

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