To the Editor: Kudos and many thanks to Grace Mayer and the Dorchester Reporter for bringing further awareness of the historical importance of the aged letters of the Walter Baker neon sign. The Lower Mills area, which straddles the Neponset River and bridges Dorchester and Milton, is rich in history, from the Indigenous people through the Industrial Revolution, that continues
Until it was taken down last month in a nod to irreparable decay, the Walter Baker neon sign had towered over Lower Mills for nearly a century, standing tall even after the eponymous chocolate factory closed 56 years ago, leaving hundreds jobless and the buildings empty. Blacked out since 1965, the sign remained firmly in place as the old complex, with its administrative
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