Dedham
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town in Massachusetts, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Massachusetts
- County
- Norfolk
- Named after
- Dedham, Essex
- Type
- Representative town meeting
- Town manager
- Leon Goodwin
- Select board
- Dennis J. Teehan, Jr., Chair , Erin Boles Welsh, Vice Chair , James A. MacDonald, Dimitria Sullivan, Michelle Persson Reilly
- Total
- 10.7 sq mi (27.6 km )
- Land
- 10.5 sq mi (27.1 km )
- Water
- 0.19 sq mi (0.5 km )
- Elevation
- 121 ft (37 m)
- Density
- 2,424.1/sq mi (935.94/km )
- White alone
- 79.4%
- Black or african american alone
- 6.24%
- American indian and alaska native alone
- 0.23%
- Asian
- 3.79%
- Native hawaiian and other pacific island
- 0.02%
- Some other race alone
- 0.3%
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- census-designated place in the United States
- Official name
- Dedham
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Norfolk County
- Population
- 24729
- Area
- 27.577316
- Elevation
- 37
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Norfolk County
- Shares border with
- Boston
- Official website
- www.dedham-ma.gov
- Image
- Town Hall and Senior Center, Dedham, Massachusetts.jpg
- Households
- 10498
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- topic's main category
- Category:Dedham, Massachusetts
- Commons category
- Dedham, Massachusetts
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Dedham, Massachusetts
- postal code
- 02027
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Dedham, Massachusetts
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Dedham, Massachusetts
- inception
- 1635-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- per capita income
- 55783
- water as percent of area
- 3.7636
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Encyclopedic overview
Dedham (/ˈdɛdəm/ DED-əm) is a town in, and the county seat of, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on Boston's southwestern border, the population was 25,364 at the 2020 census.
First settled by English colonists in 1635 and incorporated in 1636, Dedham established the first public school in America in 1643. Dedham is home to the Fairbanks House, the oldest surviving timber-frame house in the United States. On January 1, 1643, by unanimous vote, Dedham authorized the first taxpayer-funded public school, "the seed of American education." The first man-made canal in North America, Mother Brook, was created in Dedham in 1639.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dedham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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