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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., William J. Bennett Memorial (search)
the citizen soldier, went out in defense of liberty. In so doing he upheld the traditions of this region. For this is historic ground. Here came in the days of Sagamore John the English settlers who, in founding the Commonwealth, were both citizens and soldiers. The very street in front of us takes its course from the trails followed in Indian days. This way to the fish weirs at the Mystic became in later times the road to Menotomy. The street behind us, as the colony grew, as early as 1660 became known as a road around the woods. In all the years, through the slow growth of the settlement from the days of the Indian village to those of the colonial town and until the Republic was founded, the citizen soldier here established the tradition of service and sacrifice, to which this soldier of our time was true in his day. By this spot, on the night of the nineteenth of April, 1775, rode Paul Revere. By this corner trooped the Minute Men of Medford on their way to Lexington. N
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The delta, 1822—Bennett delta, 1924. (search)
r mayor's, which we have presented, with the historic significance of the place. One noteworthy incident, however, he did not mention. Captain Myles Standish with eight of his valorous army led by their Indian guide came here, to the house of Nanepashemit, wherein being dead he lay buried on September 21, 1621. This was the first white man's coming ere Medford began. And another: that just across the street, facing Woburn road was the house of Golden Moore, purchased by Thomas Brooks in 1660, and occupied by his son, Caleb Brooks, on his coming to Medford in 1679, and torn down by his grandson Samuel, just a century later. It was the wish of Peter Chardon Brooks that the estate should remain in the family as long as possible. Not until 1909 was any portion of the Brooks estate (west of the railroad) sold. Then came the erection of numerous houses by the West Medford Real Estate Trust and others, after a resident occupancy of the Brooks families of two hundred and thirty year