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Dedham is a town in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts. The population was 23,464 at the 2000 census. It is located on Boston's southwest border. On the northwest it is bordered by Needham, on the southwest by Westwood and on the southeast by Canton.

Points of interest:
Fairbanks House - is an historic home in Dedham, Massachusetts. Built by Jonathan Fairebanke for his wife Grace (Lee Smith) and their family in about 1636, it is the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America. The house was occupied and then passed down through eight generations of the family until the early twentieth century.

Museum of Bad Art - is a private museum dedicated to the tongue-in-cheek display of poorly conceived or executed examples of naïve art in the form of paintings or sculpture.

Mother Brook is the modern name for a stream that flows from the Charles River in Dedham, MA, to the Neponset River in the Hyde Park section of Boston, MA. Mother Brook was also known variously as East Brook and Mill Brook in earlier times. The man-made portion of Mother Brook is considered to have been the first canal in America dug by English settlers.

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