Nathan Carruth, second, son of Francis & Mary Hale Carruth, was educated in his native town North Brookfield, Massachusetts and resided there until seventeen years old. Coming to Boston in 1825, in the succeeding year he was employed as a clerk by a concern engaged in the West India goods trade, and he then served an apprenticeship in the drug store of Messrs. Fletcher and Carruth. After the dissolution of that firm in 1831, he entered into partnership with his brother Francis Sumner, under the firm name of F.S. & N. Carruth. They were associated in business for eight years, at the expiration of which time Nathan Carruth formed a copartnership with his younger brother Charles, under the firm name of N. & C. Carruth. The latter concern had a most successful career in the drug business in Boston, covering a period of almost 40 years.
The revolutionizing of traffic made possible by the advent of steam as a motive power found a most enthusiastic supporter in Mr. Nathan Carruth, who devoted much time, energy, and capital to the introduction of railway lines in Massachusetts and other New England States. Nathan Carruth's advocating of railway lines in Massachusetts begins with the Western Railroad around 1832. A railway line he would later sit on the Board of Director's of between 1840-1842. In Mr. Carruth's early years of advocating he became interested in their development and the very first Old Colony Memorial Railroad in 1835 was organized & contracted to build the line, to run from the end of the Taunton Branch Railroad. The Old Colony Memorial Railroad later incorporating into the first Old Colony Railroad Corporation in 1838. Mr. Carruth not only labored to promote their establishment, but after their completion he took an active interest in their welfare. After several years of successful & profitable operation of the Western Railroad & the Taunton Branch Railroad, the movement of expanding railways south of, and around Boston, & other New England states began in 1842. Mr. Nathan Carruth once again found himself advocating for railroads expansion. This period of advocating lasted nearly 2 years and simply put pitted railroad expansion advocates against farmers. By 1842 Mr. Carruth's experience & success with the Western Railroad became a powerful tool in advocating the recreation of the Old Colony Railroad Corporation and expanding on the proposed line south of Boston. In 1842 a town hall meeting was held in Dorchester and is recorded as a much lively debate in which all kinds of accusing statements where made on all sides. Farmers being fearful of an iron monster of the day. Problems seen in the City of Boston expanding with railways to their farming community, where some of the argument's anti-rail expansion advocates argued. Politically, Mr. Carruth was a Republican, in 1842 the Republican party in Massachusetts was enjoying good public opinion with the success of every railroad built to that point. Addition effects of railroads where being documented in 1842 that somewhat sold themselves, to name a few where increased value land around the line, & farmers along the Western Railroad line enjoyed increased profits on crops. The benefit of delivering Boston's & Massachusetts crops & goods to Boston port's became the focus of the The Old Colony Railroad & the Republican Party railway supporter's advocating in 1843. The argument & documented effect meant that Boston's economy would grow with rails expansion. A argument anti-rail expansion advocate's would not be able to over come and in March of 1844 the Old Colony Railroad was once again reborn under Nathan Carruth.
Besides being the first president and general manager of the Old Colony Railroad Corporation, he was for a number of years Director & Treasurer of the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire, & Director of the Dorchester & Milton Branch Railroad. He continued his involvement with railway advocating with the Old Colony Street Railway & the Metropolitan Railroad, Massachusetts up until 1875, when the last Boston Globe newspaper article is found about Mr. Nathan Carruth. During this period between 1855-1874, Mr. Carruth was the president of the Dorchester Gaslight Company, Co-Founder & Director of Cedar Grove Cemetery and a director of the Mattapan Bank. The massive Old Colony system, which began under Mr. Nathan Carruth, fell under lease to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad on March 1, 1893. The NYNH&H merged into Penn Central in 1969, which was in turn merged into Conrail in 1976. Conrail today being CSX Railroad Corporation.
In 1847 Mr. Carruth moved to Dorchester, laying out at great expense a most attractive estate in what is now known as Ashmont. A Gothic Victorian estate designed by Victorian architect Luther Briggs, also designer of the Old Colony Railroad headquarters in 1844. Starting sometime after 1850 with the completion of The Old Colony Railroad's Ashmont Station. Mr. Carruth began engaging in the promoting & development of South Dorchester's neighborhoods. Mr. Carruth continued to look to the services of Victorian Architect Luther Briggs, in this engagement & promoting of Dorchester neighborhoods, and even engaged Mr. Briggs services in laying out the streets in Mr. Carruth's personal Railroad Suburb vision. Many early concepts of Transit Oriented Development appear to show up in this early relationship between Mr. Carruth & Mr. Briggs and led to many buildings showing up around the Old Colony system line's between 1844-1880, which after 1850 were creating a circle around both Carruth Hill & Pope's Hill in Dorchester. In 1855 Mr. Carruth Co-Founded along with William Pope, the Dorchester Gaslight Company. Which began offering services to South Dorchester neighborhoods, which in the mid 1850s into the 1870s consisted largely of Victorian Estates of several acres or more. Many having been designed by Luther Briggs. With the Old Colony Lines in Dorchester & the formation of the Dorchester Gaslight company South Dorchester experienced growth that turned a farming community into an estate suburb, which than in turn led to the City of Boston annexing Dorchester in 1870. With these events in place and now City of Boston services with streets, water, & sewage. Dorchester & South Dorchester experienced the first recorded housing boom & bust in 1873.
Mr. Carruth's Estate & Personal railroad suburb vision, was on the east side of Dorchester Ave. called Beechmont/Beaumont & would become one of the first Railroad Suburbs taking nearly 30 years to build. Although it was not fully realized in Mr. Carruth's lifetime. Nathan's estate which started at 12 acres than grow to as much as 28 acres was a long and tireless vision that at its end was finished by Nathan's son, Herbert S. Carruth. The Old Colony Railroad line started it, by having reasonable means to assess downtown Boston, the Dorchester Gaslight Company expanded it, by means of houses could receive the same services as living close into Boston. But it was the annexation of Dorchester by Boston and the services brought by it that set Mr. Carruth vision in stone. Even though Mr. Carruth & Luther Briggs had been engaged in promoting & building houses around South Dorchester, outside of Nathan's Gothic Victorian house his personal vision of a neighborhood had not begun. It began in 1876-1877 with the building of 24 & 30 Beaumont St. Beaumont St. which was Carruth Estate's private carriageway became the display's of the personal vision. 30 Beaumont St. build for Nathan's 22 year old son Herbert S. Carruth & wife, was a Second Empire Victorian designed by Luther Briggs & considered an old design style in 1877. 24 Beaumont St., a Romanesque Revival, & a little of a kick back to Gothic Victorian style, was designed by John Fox. Built for a family member of William Pope's. It would be these 2 houses that would kick off the development of the Carruth St. area in the early to mid 1880s, by Nathan's son Herbert S. Carruth. It is these two houses being on Carruth Estate's private carriageway which leads to Herbert S. Carruth founding the first Deed Restrictions & Community agreement. By 1891 the vision was only several years away from completion.
Nathan Carruth resided in Dorchester for the rest of his life and died at his home on May 19, 1881. He is buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery Ashmont, Co-Founded by Mr. Carruth and apart of the building of Mr. Carruth's Railroad Suburb.
(from Wikipedia)
The revolutionizing of traffic made possible by the advent of steam as a motive power found a most enthusiastic supporter in Mr. Nathan Carruth, who devoted much time, energy, and capital to the introduction of railway lines in Massachusetts and other New England States. Nathan Carruth's advocating of railway lines in Massachusetts begins with the Western Railroad around 1832. A railway line he would later sit on the Board of Director's of between 1840-1842. In Mr. Carruth's early years of advocating he became interested in their development and the very first Old Colony Memorial Railroad in 1835 was organized & contracted to build the line, to run from the end of the Taunton Branch Railroad. The Old Colony Memorial Railroad later incorporating into the first Old Colony Railroad Corporation in 1838. Mr. Carruth not only labored to promote their establishment, but after their completion he took an active interest in their welfare. After several years of successful & profitable operation of the Western Railroad & the Taunton Branch Railroad, the movement of expanding railways south of, and around Boston, & other New England states began in 1842. Mr. Nathan Carruth once again found himself advocating for railroads expansion. This period of advocating lasted nearly 2 years and simply put pitted railroad expansion advocates against farmers. By 1842 Mr. Carruth's experience & success with the Western Railroad became a powerful tool in advocating the recreation of the Old Colony Railroad Corporation and expanding on the proposed line south of Boston. In 1842 a town hall meeting was held in Dorchester and is recorded as a much lively debate in which all kinds of accusing statements where made on all sides. Farmers being fearful of an iron monster of the day. Problems seen in the City of Boston expanding with railways to their farming community, where some of the argument's anti-rail expansion advocates argued. Politically, Mr. Carruth was a Republican, in 1842 the Republican party in Massachusetts was enjoying good public opinion with the success of every railroad built to that point. Addition effects of railroads where being documented in 1842 that somewhat sold themselves, to name a few where increased value land around the line, & farmers along the Western Railroad line enjoyed increased profits on crops. The benefit of delivering Boston's & Massachusetts crops & goods to Boston port's became the focus of the The Old Colony Railroad & the Republican Party railway supporter's advocating in 1843. The argument & documented effect meant that Boston's economy would grow with rails expansion. A argument anti-rail expansion advocate's would not be able to over come and in March of 1844 the Old Colony Railroad was once again reborn under Nathan Carruth.
Besides being the first president and general manager of the Old Colony Railroad Corporation, he was for a number of years Director & Treasurer of the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire, & Director of the Dorchester & Milton Branch Railroad. He continued his involvement with railway advocating with the Old Colony Street Railway & the Metropolitan Railroad, Massachusetts up until 1875, when the last Boston Globe newspaper article is found about Mr. Nathan Carruth. During this period between 1855-1874, Mr. Carruth was the president of the Dorchester Gaslight Company, Co-Founder & Director of Cedar Grove Cemetery and a director of the Mattapan Bank. The massive Old Colony system, which began under Mr. Nathan Carruth, fell under lease to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad on March 1, 1893. The NYNH&H merged into Penn Central in 1969, which was in turn merged into Conrail in 1976. Conrail today being CSX Railroad Corporation.
In 1847 Mr. Carruth moved to Dorchester, laying out at great expense a most attractive estate in what is now known as Ashmont. A Gothic Victorian estate designed by Victorian architect Luther Briggs, also designer of the Old Colony Railroad headquarters in 1844. Starting sometime after 1850 with the completion of The Old Colony Railroad's Ashmont Station. Mr. Carruth began engaging in the promoting & development of South Dorchester's neighborhoods. Mr. Carruth continued to look to the services of Victorian Architect Luther Briggs, in this engagement & promoting of Dorchester neighborhoods, and even engaged Mr. Briggs services in laying out the streets in Mr. Carruth's personal Railroad Suburb vision. Many early concepts of Transit Oriented Development appear to show up in this early relationship between Mr. Carruth & Mr. Briggs and led to many buildings showing up around the Old Colony system line's between 1844-1880, which after 1850 were creating a circle around both Carruth Hill & Pope's Hill in Dorchester. In 1855 Mr. Carruth Co-Founded along with William Pope, the Dorchester Gaslight Company. Which began offering services to South Dorchester neighborhoods, which in the mid 1850s into the 1870s consisted largely of Victorian Estates of several acres or more. Many having been designed by Luther Briggs. With the Old Colony Lines in Dorchester & the formation of the Dorchester Gaslight company South Dorchester experienced growth that turned a farming community into an estate suburb, which than in turn led to the City of Boston annexing Dorchester in 1870. With these events in place and now City of Boston services with streets, water, & sewage. Dorchester & South Dorchester experienced the first recorded housing boom & bust in 1873.
Mr. Carruth's Estate & Personal railroad suburb vision, was on the east side of Dorchester Ave. called Beechmont/Beaumont & would become one of the first Railroad Suburbs taking nearly 30 years to build. Although it was not fully realized in Mr. Carruth's lifetime. Nathan's estate which started at 12 acres than grow to as much as 28 acres was a long and tireless vision that at its end was finished by Nathan's son, Herbert S. Carruth. The Old Colony Railroad line started it, by having reasonable means to assess downtown Boston, the Dorchester Gaslight Company expanded it, by means of houses could receive the same services as living close into Boston. But it was the annexation of Dorchester by Boston and the services brought by it that set Mr. Carruth vision in stone. Even though Mr. Carruth & Luther Briggs had been engaged in promoting & building houses around South Dorchester, outside of Nathan's Gothic Victorian house his personal vision of a neighborhood had not begun. It began in 1876-1877 with the building of 24 & 30 Beaumont St. Beaumont St. which was Carruth Estate's private carriageway became the display's of the personal vision. 30 Beaumont St. build for Nathan's 22 year old son Herbert S. Carruth & wife, was a Second Empire Victorian designed by Luther Briggs & considered an old design style in 1877. 24 Beaumont St., a Romanesque Revival, & a little of a kick back to Gothic Victorian style, was designed by John Fox. Built for a family member of William Pope's. It would be these 2 houses that would kick off the development of the Carruth St. area in the early to mid 1880s, by Nathan's son Herbert S. Carruth. It is these two houses being on Carruth Estate's private carriageway which leads to Herbert S. Carruth founding the first Deed Restrictions & Community agreement. By 1891 the vision was only several years away from completion.
Nathan Carruth resided in Dorchester for the rest of his life and died at his home on May 19, 1881. He is buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery Ashmont, Co-Founded by Mr. Carruth and apart of the building of Mr. Carruth's Railroad Suburb.
(from Wikipedia)
Nathan Carruth, second, son of Francis & Mary Hale Carruth, was educated in his native town North Brookfield, Massachusetts and resided there until seventeen years old. Coming to Boston in 1825, in the succeeding year he was employed as a clerk by a concern engaged in the West India goods trade, and he then served an apprenticeship in the drug store of Messrs. Fletcher and Carruth. After the dissolution of that firm in 1831, he entered into partnership with his brother Francis Sumner, under the firm name of F.S. & N. Carruth. They were associated in business for eight years, at the expiration of which time Nathan Carruth formed a copartnership with his younger brother Charles, under the firm name of N. & C. Carruth. The latter concern had a most successful career in the drug business in Boston, covering a period of almost 40 years.
The revolutionizing of traffic made possible by the advent of steam as a motive power found a most enthusiastic supporter in Mr. Nathan Carruth, who devoted much time, energy, and capital to the introduction of railway lines in Massachusetts and other New England States. Nathan Carruth's advocating of railway lines in Massachusetts begins with the Western Railroad around 1832. A railway line he would later sit on the Board of Director's of between 1840-1842. In Mr. Carruth's early years of advocating he became interested in their development and the very first Old Colony Memorial Railroad in 1835 was organized & contracted to build the line, to run from the end of the Taunton Branch Railroad. The Old Colony Memorial Railroad later incorporating into the first Old Colony Railroad Corporation in 1838. Mr. Carruth not only labored to promote their establishment, but after their completion he took an active interest in their welfare. After several years of successful & profitable operation of the Western Railroad & the Taunton Branch Railroad, the movement of expanding railways south of, and around Boston, & other New England states began in 1842. Mr. Nathan Carruth once again found himself advocating for railroads expansion. This period of advocating lasted nearly 2 years and simply put pitted railroad expansion advocates against farmers. By 1842 Mr. Carruth's experience & success with the Western Railroad became a powerful tool in advocating the recreation of the Old Colony Railroad Corporation and expanding on the proposed line south of Boston. In 1842 a town hall meeting was held in Dorchester and is recorded as a much lively debate in which all kinds of accusing statements where made on all sides. Farmers being fearful of an iron monster of the day. Problems seen in the City of Boston expanding with railways to their farming community, where some of the argument's anti-rail expansion advocates argued. Politically, Mr. Carruth was a Republican, in 1842 the Republican party in Massachusetts was enjoying good public opinion with the success of every railroad built to that point. Addition effects of railroads where being documented in 1842 that somewhat sold themselves, to name a few where increased value land around the line, & farmers along the Western Railroad line enjoyed increased profits on crops. The benefit of delivering Boston's & Massachusetts crops & goods to Boston port's became the focus of the The Old Colony Railroad & the Republican Party railway supporter's advocating in 1843. The argument & documented effect meant that Boston's economy would grow with rails expansion. A argument anti-rail expansion advocate's would not be able to over come and in March of 1844 the Old Colony Railroad was once again reborn under Nathan Carruth.
Besides being the first president and general manager of the Old Colony Railroad Corporation, he was for a number of years Director & Treasurer of the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire, & Director of the Dorchester & Milton Branch Railroad. He continued his involvement with railway advocating with the Old Colony Street Railway & the Metropolitan Railroad, Massachusetts up until 1875, when the last Boston Globe newspaper article is found about Mr. Nathan Carruth. During this period between 1855-1874, Mr. Carruth was the president of the Dorchester Gaslight Company, Co-Founder & Director of Cedar Grove Cemetery and a director of the Mattapan Bank. The massive Old Colony system, which began under Mr. Nathan Carruth, fell under lease to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad on March 1, 1893. The NYNH&H merged into Penn Central in 1969, which was in turn merged into Conrail in 1976. Conrail today being CSX Railroad Corporation.
In 1847 Mr. Carruth moved to Dorchester, laying out at great expense a most attractive estate in what is now known as Ashmont. A Gothic Victorian estate designed by Victorian architect Luther Briggs, also designer of the Old Colony Railroad headquarters in 1844. Starting sometime after 1850 with the completion of The Old Colony Railroad's Ashmont Station. Mr. Carruth began engaging in the promoting & development of South Dorchester's neighborhoods. Mr. Carruth continued to look to the services of Victorian Architect Luther Briggs, in this engagement & promoting of Dorchester neighborhoods, and even engaged Mr. Briggs services in laying out the streets in Mr. Carruth's personal Railroad Suburb vision. Many early concepts of Transit Oriented Development appear to show up in this early relationship between Mr. Carruth & Mr. Briggs and led to many buildings showing up around the Old Colony system line's between 1844-1880, which after 1850 were creating a circle around both Carruth Hill & Pope's Hill in Dorchester. In 1855 Mr. Carruth Co-Founded along with William Pope, the Dorchester Gaslight Company. Which began offering services to South Dorchester neighborhoods, which in the mid 1850s into the 1870s consisted largely of Victorian Estates of several acres or more. Many having been designed by Luther Briggs. With the Old Colony Lines in Dorchester & the formation of the Dorchester Gaslight company South Dorchester experienced growth that turned a farming community into an estate suburb, which than in turn led to the City of Boston annexing Dorchester in 1870. With these events in place and now City of Boston services with streets, water, & sewage. Dorchester & South Dorchester experienced the first recorded housing boom & bust in 1873.
Mr. Carruth's Estate & Personal railroad suburb vision, was on the east side of Dorchester Ave. called Beechmont/Beaumont & would become one of the first Railroad Suburbs taking nearly 30 years to build. Although it was not fully realized in Mr. Carruth's lifetime. Nathan's estate which started at 12 acres than grow to as much as 28 acres was a long and tireless vision that at its end was finished by Nathan's son, Herbert S. Carruth. The Old Colony Railroad line started it, by having reasonable means to assess downtown Boston, the Dorchester Gaslight Company expanded it, by means of houses could receive the same services as living close into Boston. But it was the annexation of Dorchester by Boston and the services brought by it that set Mr. Carruth vision in stone. Even though Mr. Carruth & Luther Briggs had been engaged in promoting & building houses around South Dorchester, outside of Nathan's Gothic Victorian house his personal vision of a neighborhood had not begun. It began in 1876-1877 with the building of 24 & 30 Beaumont St. Beaumont St. which was Carruth Estate's private carriageway became the display's of the personal vision. 30 Beaumont St. build for Nathan's 22 year old son Herbert S. Carruth & wife, was a Second Empire Victorian designed by Luther Briggs & considered an old design style in 1877. 24 Beaumont St., a Romanesque Revival, & a little of a kick back to Gothic Victorian style, was designed by John Fox. Built for a family member of William Pope's. It would be these 2 houses that would kick off the development of the Carruth St. area in the early to mid 1880s, by Nathan's son Herbert S. Carruth. It is these two houses being on Carruth Estate's private carriageway which leads to Herbert S. Carruth founding the first Deed Restrictions & Community agreement. By 1891 the vision was only several years away from completion.
Nathan Carruth resided in Dorchester for the rest of his life and died at his home on May 19, 1881. He is buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery Ashmont, Co-Founded by Mr. Carruth and apart of the building of Mr. Carruth's Railroad Suburb.
(from Wikipedia)
The revolutionizing of traffic made possible by the advent of steam as a motive power found a most enthusiastic supporter in Mr. Nathan Carruth, who devoted much time, energy, and capital to the introduction of railway lines in Massachusetts and other New England States. Nathan Carruth's advocating of railway lines in Massachusetts begins with the Western Railroad around 1832. A railway line he would later sit on the Board of Director's of between 1840-1842. In Mr. Carruth's early years of advocating he became interested in their development and the very first Old Colony Memorial Railroad in 1835 was organized & contracted to build the line, to run from the end of the Taunton Branch Railroad. The Old Colony Memorial Railroad later incorporating into the first Old Colony Railroad Corporation in 1838. Mr. Carruth not only labored to promote their establishment, but after their completion he took an active interest in their welfare. After several years of successful & profitable operation of the Western Railroad & the Taunton Branch Railroad, the movement of expanding railways south of, and around Boston, & other New England states began in 1842. Mr. Nathan Carruth once again found himself advocating for railroads expansion. This period of advocating lasted nearly 2 years and simply put pitted railroad expansion advocates against farmers. By 1842 Mr. Carruth's experience & success with the Western Railroad became a powerful tool in advocating the recreation of the Old Colony Railroad Corporation and expanding on the proposed line south of Boston. In 1842 a town hall meeting was held in Dorchester and is recorded as a much lively debate in which all kinds of accusing statements where made on all sides. Farmers being fearful of an iron monster of the day. Problems seen in the City of Boston expanding with railways to their farming community, where some of the argument's anti-rail expansion advocates argued. Politically, Mr. Carruth was a Republican, in 1842 the Republican party in Massachusetts was enjoying good public opinion with the success of every railroad built to that point. Addition effects of railroads where being documented in 1842 that somewhat sold themselves, to name a few where increased value land around the line, & farmers along the Western Railroad line enjoyed increased profits on crops. The benefit of delivering Boston's & Massachusetts crops & goods to Boston port's became the focus of the The Old Colony Railroad & the Republican Party railway supporter's advocating in 1843. The argument & documented effect meant that Boston's economy would grow with rails expansion. A argument anti-rail expansion advocate's would not be able to over come and in March of 1844 the Old Colony Railroad was once again reborn under Nathan Carruth.
Besides being the first president and general manager of the Old Colony Railroad Corporation, he was for a number of years Director & Treasurer of the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire, & Director of the Dorchester & Milton Branch Railroad. He continued his involvement with railway advocating with the Old Colony Street Railway & the Metropolitan Railroad, Massachusetts up until 1875, when the last Boston Globe newspaper article is found about Mr. Nathan Carruth. During this period between 1855-1874, Mr. Carruth was the president of the Dorchester Gaslight Company, Co-Founder & Director of Cedar Grove Cemetery and a director of the Mattapan Bank. The massive Old Colony system, which began under Mr. Nathan Carruth, fell under lease to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad on March 1, 1893. The NYNH&H merged into Penn Central in 1969, which was in turn merged into Conrail in 1976. Conrail today being CSX Railroad Corporation.
In 1847 Mr. Carruth moved to Dorchester, laying out at great expense a most attractive estate in what is now known as Ashmont. A Gothic Victorian estate designed by Victorian architect Luther Briggs, also designer of the Old Colony Railroad headquarters in 1844. Starting sometime after 1850 with the completion of The Old Colony Railroad's Ashmont Station. Mr. Carruth began engaging in the promoting & development of South Dorchester's neighborhoods. Mr. Carruth continued to look to the services of Victorian Architect Luther Briggs, in this engagement & promoting of Dorchester neighborhoods, and even engaged Mr. Briggs services in laying out the streets in Mr. Carruth's personal Railroad Suburb vision. Many early concepts of Transit Oriented Development appear to show up in this early relationship between Mr. Carruth & Mr. Briggs and led to many buildings showing up around the Old Colony system line's between 1844-1880, which after 1850 were creating a circle around both Carruth Hill & Pope's Hill in Dorchester. In 1855 Mr. Carruth Co-Founded along with William Pope, the Dorchester Gaslight Company. Which began offering services to South Dorchester neighborhoods, which in the mid 1850s into the 1870s consisted largely of Victorian Estates of several acres or more. Many having been designed by Luther Briggs. With the Old Colony Lines in Dorchester & the formation of the Dorchester Gaslight company South Dorchester experienced growth that turned a farming community into an estate suburb, which than in turn led to the City of Boston annexing Dorchester in 1870. With these events in place and now City of Boston services with streets, water, & sewage. Dorchester & South Dorchester experienced the first recorded housing boom & bust in 1873.
Mr. Carruth's Estate & Personal railroad suburb vision, was on the east side of Dorchester Ave. called Beechmont/Beaumont & would become one of the first Railroad Suburbs taking nearly 30 years to build. Although it was not fully realized in Mr. Carruth's lifetime. Nathan's estate which started at 12 acres than grow to as much as 28 acres was a long and tireless vision that at its end was finished by Nathan's son, Herbert S. Carruth. The Old Colony Railroad line started it, by having reasonable means to assess downtown Boston, the Dorchester Gaslight Company expanded it, by means of houses could receive the same services as living close into Boston. But it was the annexation of Dorchester by Boston and the services brought by it that set Mr. Carruth vision in stone. Even though Mr. Carruth & Luther Briggs had been engaged in promoting & building houses around South Dorchester, outside of Nathan's Gothic Victorian house his personal vision of a neighborhood had not begun. It began in 1876-1877 with the building of 24 & 30 Beaumont St. Beaumont St. which was Carruth Estate's private carriageway became the display's of the personal vision. 30 Beaumont St. build for Nathan's 22 year old son Herbert S. Carruth & wife, was a Second Empire Victorian designed by Luther Briggs & considered an old design style in 1877. 24 Beaumont St., a Romanesque Revival, & a little of a kick back to Gothic Victorian style, was designed by John Fox. Built for a family member of William Pope's. It would be these 2 houses that would kick off the development of the Carruth St. area in the early to mid 1880s, by Nathan's son Herbert S. Carruth. It is these two houses being on Carruth Estate's private carriageway which leads to Herbert S. Carruth founding the first Deed Restrictions & Community agreement. By 1891 the vision was only several years away from completion.
Nathan Carruth resided in Dorchester for the rest of his life and died at his home on May 19, 1881. He is buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery Ashmont, Co-Founded by Mr. Carruth and apart of the building of Mr. Carruth's Railroad Suburb.
(from Wikipedia)
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