By Ed Forry, Reporter Staff January 21, 2021 Selected pieces from a Dorchester Potteryworks collection. Reporter file photo Dorchester Potteryworks is one of our community’s historical treasures. Founded in 1895 by a Connecticut man, George Henderson, and operated by him and his family, the company produced earthenware pottery for eight decades until it closed in 1979. The business was located on Victory Road, near the edge of what in the late 1800s was the Dorchester waterfront and is now Morrissey Boulevard. Henderson learned the pottery business in New Haven before moving to Dorchester, where he built his home and bought an industrial building across from the Mill Street residential neighborhood.