The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

598 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
1805. This turnpike proving a failure, and the bridge
becoming neglected, out of repair, and dangerous, the
public safety required that it should go into responsible hands, and the County Commissioners in 1848
laid out about a fourth of a mile, including the
bridges over the trench and river, as a public highway, and thus brought the bridge again upon the
towns for support. The town of Milton, the next
year, built a stone bridge over the trench, and the
two towns put the other bridge in repair.
No public bridge crossed the Neponset at the foot
of the Fowl Meadows until 1759, although a private one (probably a farm bridge), called Hubbard's
bridge, had for some time existed, with no public
way to get to it. In that year, the towns of Milton
and Dedham rebuilt Hubbard's bridge, and laid out
a road to it, the cost of the bridge to be paid in proportion to the Province tax of each town. The land
for the road was given by Thomas Vose. In 1807,
the bridge was rebuilt by the towns, and a basis
agreed upon to pay for and support the same. In
1850, the two towns erected a new stone bridge, and
paid for it upon the basis agreed upon in 1807.
In 1802, a company obtained a charter for a toll
bridge from Preston's (now Commercial) Point, in
Dorchester, to Billings's Rocks in Quincy, which was
precisely the location assigned for Mr. Holland's
ferry one hundred and sixty-seven years before.
This was found to be an inconvenient location, and
an expensive bridge to build; therefore the next
year the Company petitioned to change the location, so as to erect their bridge at a place called