...reet. Robert Bacon had a factory at Baconville (in northwest Medford) in which he made hat bodies, feltings, etc. He is said to have constructed more than fifty thousand hat bodies per year. Thomas R. Peck & Co. had, on Mystic avenue, a factory for making fur (commonly called beaver) hats, of which the product some years had been about ten thousand, valued at about $40,000. But soon after the t...