Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2124
In 1919, the park at Savin Hill beach was renamed for Dorchester native Joseph W. McConnell, a US Army captain who had been killed in action in France in 1918 and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously.
Today the rock has lost its plaque, perhaps stolen during for its metal value.
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