South Boston

South Boston, a peninsular extension of the Massachusetts mainland, was originally dubbed �Great Neck� by the Puritans who settled Dorchester in 1630. After the year 1804, when the town of South Boston was officially separated from Dorchester, tremendous urban development was begun according to a highly organized grid plan. Anthony Mitchell Sammarco�s South Boston chronicles the development of this culturally and economically rich suburb from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Southie,