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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Women of the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony. (search)
ol in part of present Centre schoolhouse, a teaching staff of three, with occasional music teacher. While Medford's population has increased seven times, the high school teachers are now twenty times and its graduates over thirteen times as many. Then the two steam railroads gave good service to Boston, but there was no public conveyance within and to adjacent towns. South Medford was mainly brickyards and trotting park, East Medford sparsely settled, and Wellington only a farm. A swamp lay beyond Dudley street; the Fellsway unthought of. No telephone then, no electric light or power, no library building, no parkways or Fells reservation. But Medford had then two military companies, two brass bands, a big lumber yard, the old tide-mill, famous rum distillery, town hall,—also a low tax rate. Automobiles, motor boats, movies and radio, heavy taxes—costly luxuries—are of today. Let our Medford readers finish for themselves our contrasts and comments, here begu