[3] A mission Sunday school was begun by lay readers from St. Paul's in the Sanderson Building on June 8, 1873[3] for Anglicans in the Oakdale section of town who could not get to the church easily.

[4] Soon after, on the 29th of the same month, public services of the Episcopal Church were begun in Sanderson Hall and for three years they were conducted by lay readers.

[15] Beginning in the early 1900s and continuing until the 1990s, bonfires would be held first in Oakdale Square and then in the Manor to celebrate the 4th of July.

[18] When the cornerstone of the Oakdale School was laid in 1902, the Church's rector, Cheney, led the crowd in prayer.

[19] After arriving in Dedham in 1871, William B. Gould signed the Articles of Incorporation and became a founder of the Church.

[30][31] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1884).

History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men.