Readville, Massachusetts
Readville ( 1655-1847 referred to as part of Dedham Low Plains ) is since 1867 a district of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Readville belongs to the area of Hyde Park and was named after James Read, an early inhabitant and owner of a cotton mill.
The district is bounded on the south by Milton and to the west of Dedham. To get from Milton after Readville, leads one of several possibilities about the Paul 's Bridge, one of the oldest bridges in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The station Readville MBTA binds the district on the local trains of the MBTA Commuter Rail.
From the district affords a good view of the Great Blue Hill and the Blue Hills Reservation. Nearby also flows the Neponset River.
History
In Readville was during the Civil War, the Camp Meigs, which served as a training base for soldiers of the Union Army, including the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which was portrayed in the movie Glory. Also in Camp Meigs, the 2nd Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry was formed, which consisted of a half from recruited in California soldiers who were by sea according Readville for training and then sent on to Virginia in the war. On today's Meigs Field, there are small monuments and memorial plaques that recall. Every year there on July 4, the Field Day Picnic held.
For most of the 20th century, the neighborhood of immigrants from Ireland and Italy was dominated, but now live there mostly African Americans and Hispanics and Latinos. The Boston Mayor Thomas Menino also lived long in Readville.
Structures
The Blue Hill Community Church is a nondenominational church that was founded in 1888. Phillips Brooks preached there his last speech, and the carol O Little Town of Bethlehem was sung at this point the first time. In the church, Samuel Francis Smith first read his poem America, which as My Country, 'Tis of Thee was later set to music and known.
The St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church is the largest local church.
In the early 20th century there was in Readville Trotting Park with the Readville a popular harness racing track, but this was later converted into a warehouse and distribution center for supermarket chain Stop & Shop. Today, this place used by several companies warehouses.
In Readville there were also extensive maintenance hangars for locomotives and rolling stock of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, which were closed in the early 1960s, however. Today the CSX Corporation maintains a cargo terminal at the Prescott Street and Wolcott Square is a maintenance building of the MBTA for passenger cars.