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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., V. Town of Arlington. (search)
the area known as the Great Meadows in that town. 1872 The town established its public library—transferring the Juvenile Library (established 1835) to it, to be known as the Arlington Public Library. In March, 1872, the town clock in the tower of the Unitarian meeting-house having been destroyed by the falling of the steeple of that house in a gale, in Aug. 1871, the town voted to place a new town clock in the tower of the edifice when said tower was re-built. Sunday evening, Aug. 27, 1871, about 11 o'clock, a violent gust or tornado came up suddenly from the west and blew down the spire of the church edifice of the First Congregational Parish, throwing to the ground the bell and clock. The bell was uninjured, but the clock was badly injured, and the dials were broken. The spire of the Orthodox Church was also blown down, together with its bell, which was uninjured. The Baptist Church edifice, which for several weeks previous had been undergoing thorough repairs, then n