Dorchester Day Parade

Boston, MA · Holiday

When: June 6, 2027
Where: Dorchester Ave & Richmond St, Lower Mills, to Columbia Rd · Boston · MA
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

One of Boston's oldest neighborhood parades, marching 3.2 miles up Dorchester Avenue from Lower Mills to Columbia Road each June to mark the town's 1630 founding. First held in 1905, it remains one of the largest civic parades in Boston's largest neighborhood, drawing community groups, marching bands and thousands of spectators.

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One of Boston's oldest neighborhood parades, marching 3.2 miles up Dorchester Avenue from Lower Mills to Columbia Road each June to mark the town's 1630 founding.
Lower Mills, where Walter Baker ground America's first chocolate0.6 mi
The mill buildings on both banks of the Neponset here belonged mostly to Walter Baker and Company, the first company to make chocolate on any scale in the United States.
Governor Hutchinson's ha-ha, the last piece of a royal estate1.0 mi
A ha-ha is a sunken wall that keeps livestock off a lawn without breaking the view, and this one on Randolph Avenue was probably built around 1771.
The Forbes House and the money the China trade brought home1.0 mi
Robert Bennet Forbes made his fortune sailing to Canton and built this Greek Revival house on Adams Street in 1833.
Squantum Point builds 35 destroyers, then teaches the Naval Reserve to fly1.9 mi
The Navy threw up an emergency yard on this point in 1918, and the Victory Destroyer Plant finished 35 Clemson class destroyers before it closed in 1920.