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Dedham

Dedham is a town in, and the county seat of, , United States. Located on 's southwestern border, the population was 25,364 at the 2020 census.
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  • Type: Town with 23,600 residents
  • Description: town in Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Dedham Massachusetts”, “Dedham Village”, “Dedham, MA”, and “Dedham, Massachusetts”
  • Postal codes: 02026 and 02027
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fairbanks House and Norfolk County Courthouse.

Museum
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The 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.

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

Church
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St. Mary of the Assumption Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, in the Archdiocese of Boston. The first church was constructed in Dedham Centre in 1857 and it was formally established as a parish in 1866.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Roxbury and Readville.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in , , United States, bordered by and to the northeast, the village of and the town of to the north, the city of to the northwest, the towns of Dedham and to the southwest, and to the southeast. is situated 2½ miles northeast of Dedham.

Neighborhood
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is part of the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston. '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 , in 1847.

Suburb
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is the southernmost neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Situated 7.9 miles south of downtown Boston, it is home to a diverse range of people, housing types and social groups. is situated 2½ miles east of Dedham.

Dedham

Latitude
42.2489° or 42° 14′ 56″ north
Longitude
-71.1756° or 71° 10′ 32″ west
Population
23,600
Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US DED
Open location code
87JC6RXF+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158843631
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4934664
Wiki­data ID
Q1758615
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Dedham” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ديدام”
  • Arabic: “ديدهام”
  • Basque: “Dedham”
  • Belarusian: “Дэдэм”
  • Bulgarian: “Дедам”
  • Catalan: “Dedham”
  • Cebuano: “Dedham”
  • Chechen: “Дедгем”
  • Chinese: “Dedham”
  • Chinese: “戴德姆”
  • Czech: “Dedham”
  • Dagbani: “Dedhan”
  • Danish: “Dedham”
  • Dutch: “Dedham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديدام, ماساتشوستس”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديدام”
  • French: “Dedham”
  • German: “Dedham”
  • Haitian: “Dedham, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Dedham”
  • Hebrew: “דדהאם”
  • Hungarian: “Dedham”
  • Irish: “Dedham”
  • Italian: “Dedham”
  • Japanese: “デダム”
  • Kazakh: “Dédxam”
  • Kazakh: “Дэдхам”
  • Kazakh: “دەدحام”
  • Kirghiz: “Дэдхам”
  • Korean: “데덤”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dedham”
  • Mazanderani: “ددهام (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “ددهام”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dedham”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dedham”
  • Persian: “ددهام، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “دِدهام، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “ددهام”
  • Polish: “Dedham”
  • Portuguese: “Dedham”
  • Russian: “Дедем”
  • Serbian: “Дедам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dedham, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dedham”
  • Slovak: “Dedham”
  • Slovenian: “Dedham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ددهام، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Dedham (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Dedham”
  • Swahili: “Dedham, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Dedham”
  • Swedish: “Dedham, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Dedham”
  • Tatar: “Дедгем”
  • Turkish: “Dedham, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Dedham”
  • Ukrainian: “Дедгем”
  • Urdu: “ڈیڈیم، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “ڈیڈیم”
  • Volapük: “Dedham”
  • Welsh: “Dedham, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Dedham”
  • “Dedham”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dedham”. Photo: Biruitorul, Public domain.