Elder Thomas Dimmock

Historical marker location:

3704 Main St, Barnstable, Massachusetts

( Marker is on Main Street (Massachusetts Route 6A) west of Captain Murphys Way, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1939

In 1837, Harvard University held a "prostitute parade" where students marched through Boston with prostitutes to protest a law that would have made it illegal to hire women for "immoral purposes."