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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
the old house a one-story wooden block containing four stores. A grocery was started in two, a drug store by Amasa Beach, Jr., in one, and two dress-makers took the other. These we have named sufficed for three years. The new grocery of Hall & Co. had but a brief run, then a fish man tried it, and in 1872 Artemas Poole, a shoe-maker, came in. Meanwhile a livery and boarding stable for D. K. Richardson had been built just beyond Whitmore brook, and Mr. Usher had begun to publish the Medford Journal in December, 1870. Mr. Usher's stable was struck by lightning and burned and he replaced it by a new and larger building, which early in 1875 he moved across High street. This caused a rearrangement. Two buildings were moved to Auburn street (just extended across the river), one half of the four-store block taken down, and the original Macy store moved next the old Usher house and Mr. Poole moved into it. The new stable building was made into two stores, with various rooms on secon