Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts
Dorchester
Dorchester is a neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km2) in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This dissolved municipality, Boston's largest neighborhood by far, is often divided by city planners in order to create two planning areas roughly equivalent in size and population to other Boston neighborhoods.
How locals move
Getting around Dorchester the local way
- Get inOne of the most popular and frequent are Water Taxis.
- Get inHop aboard a real ship and take the Bay State Cruise Company's Provincetown Fast Ferry, running from the pier with the Seaport Hotel during the summer months.
- Go nextBut boats are available to ferry you to the Boston Harbor Islands seasonally.
- Go nextIf you have 100 bucks and 90 minutes, climb aboard the fast ferry to Provincetown.
From Wikivoyage: Boston/South Boston, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.
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