Neponset
Neponset is a district in the southeastern corner of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The Neponset Indians were the original inhabitants of this district and in 1646 John Eliot preached unsuccessfully to the Native American community in Lower Mills led by Sachem Cutshamekin before the tribe moved to Ponkapoag.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Boston City Archives, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: human settlement in Massachusetts, United States of America
- Also known as: “Naponset”, “Neponset, Boston”, and “Neponsett”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dorchester Shores Reservation and Pope John Paul II Park Reservation.
Dorchester Shores Reservation
Recreation area
Dorchester Shores Reservation has been used as a common name for several non-contiguous recreation areas along the extended mouth of the Neponset River at the seaboard edge of the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Pope John Paul II Park Reservation
Park
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pope John Paul II Park Reservation, officially the Saint Pope John Paul II Park, and also known as Pope Park, is a 66-acre Massachusetts state park bordering the Neponset River in the Dorchester section of Boston.
Pierce House
Museum
Photo: Jameslwoodward, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Pierce House is a rare 17th-century house at 24 Oakton Avenue in the Dorchester neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. Built c. 1683, It documents period building practices, and the tastes and housing needs of one family, the Pierces, over more than three centuries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Quincy and Fields Corner.
North Quincy
Suburb
North Quincy is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is separated from the city of Boston by the Neponset River, and borders the Quincy neighborhoods of Squantum, Montclair and Wollaston.
Fields Corner
Neighborhood
Fields Corner is a historic commercial district in Dorchester, the largest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States founded in June 1630.
Ashmont
Neighborhood
Ashmont is a section of the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It includes the subsections of Ashmont Hill, Peabody Square, and Ashmont-Adams.
Neponset
- Category: locality
- Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.28621° or 42° 17′ 10″ northLongitude
-71.04533° or 71° 2′ 43″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
87JC7XP3+FVOpenStreetMap ID
node 158807354OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Neponset” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Neponset”
- French: “Neponset”
- Russian: “Непонсет”
- Turkish: “Neponset”
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