[1] At the dawn of the 20th century, Officer Drugan would meet the last train from Boston at Dedham station, examine the exiting passengers for "suspicious strangers," and then turn out the lights.

[9] The Norfolk County District Attorney's office provided the community resource dog to the Dedham police and three other departments.

[9] The department was located on the first floor of Memorial Hall until Town Clerk John Carey locked the doors for the last time on March 16, 1962.

[11] The Dedham Square Planning Committee voted to recommend the old police headquarters be demolished and a new town green be built on the site in December 2021.

[15] Inside the statue of William B. Gould are three photos of the ribbon cutting of the Public Safety Building.

[19] Caretaker John Carey found blood scattered on the white marble gravestone of Lavinia Turner the next morning, as well as a bloody handprint on the iron rail surrounding the family plot.

[19] The press, including the Dedham Transcript and newspapers from Boston and New York, covered the story extensively.

[19] By the end of November, when a ghost was seen in a Palmer, Massachusetts cemetery and the newspaper coverage moved there, the sightings in Dedham died down.

[19] In December 1973, the Dedham Police Department investigated the sighting of several unidentified flying objects over town.

[20] 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.

[21] When police and the fire department arrived to shut it down, they were pelted with rocks and full cans of beer.

[22] In 1946, thousands of fans swarmed the field for about 20 minutes after a Norwood touchdown pass was brought back on an offensive interference penalty.

[22] On December 1, 1972, The Friends of Eddie Coyle crew shot the film's opening scene in Dedham Square.

[23] On June 16, 2009, just a few weeks after the movie was rereleased on DVD, the same bank was robbed in a manner reminiscent of how it was done in the film.