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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Medford a century ago—1819. (search)
revity. More elaborate, but incorrect in some ways is the Hales' map, made about 1820, See Register, Vol. I, p. 133. and showing the few roads and something of topography. By the former we find location of the meeting-house and mills, but little information relative to housing or business. No newspaper here then, and the bi-weeklies of Boston had but rare allusion to Medford matters. One hundred and eighty-nine years had rolled away since the first settlement of the town, and yet Medford in 1819, separated from the metropolis of New England by but one town, and but five miles distant, had less than 1,500 inhabitants. It had been hard hit by the Revolution, but in the first decade of the nineteenth century, with the establishment of ship-building, there was an increase of 316 in the population, but in the second decade but 34. If the increase of population was small in those latter years, the reverse was true of the new industry, for while 16 vessels were built in the firs
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Correction. (search)
Correction. One letter wrong makes a lot of difference sometimes. In our last issue appears on p. 69: Sunday School mistresses for poor, 32.98. The typesetter followed copy carefully in capitalization, but though proficient in the three R's, substituted an a for the one in Sundry, and the proof-reader, (and editor likewise) let it get by in four readings, to stare at us at publication. As it stands (Vol. XXII, p. 69), it is an anachronism as well as a mis-statement. There were no Sunday schools in Medford in 1819, and certainly Medford as a town never paid any teachers in such, had there been any. The statement should have read: Sundry School mistresses for poor 32.98.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., A rill from the town pump. (search)
t be better told than was its contemporary's of Salem; yet we wonder just a little if Salem ever had a pump like that of Medford, shown in our illustration. Had such been the case, it might under the pen of the romancer have given forth a double stream of eloquence. Also we query, Was there ever one like it anywhere? We deem it fortunate that the late Francis Wait, himself a mechanic of ability, made a description of its operation and peculiar features, which our local artist and younger Medford boy has preserved for us in our illustration. It was probably installed soon after 1812, and after serving the thirsty public for an average human lifetime, was replaced by another of ordinary style in 1848. Our worthy townsman Hooper tells us of the boyish pride he felt when he first was able to operate its pendulum handle, which alternately lifted the water in the two pumps enclosed in the box-like structure, and delivered through a single spout as shown It was a man's job to operate
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Sewage in Mystic river. (search)
rsuit and arrived at the station before the engine could be started up. After the arrival of the party, which had walked to the pumping station, the mayor was informed of the action of the employees. He was asked if it was his intent that all the sewage should be passed through the filter beds, and he answered yes. Then said one of the selectmen of Medford, Stop up the sewer so that no unpurified sewage will pass into the pond, and thus compel all the sewage to be pumped into the filter beds. Turning to the city engineer, the mayor said, How would that do, Mr.——? It would not do at all, was the answer. The mayor made no reply. The city of Boston never did, and never intended to purify all the sewage before discharging it into the pond. The condition of matters was never satisfactory to Medford people until the completion of the Metropolitan system of sewerage. After the Metropolitan Water Board was established, Mystic pond was abandoned as a water supply. John H. Hoo
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., The towers of Medford. (search)
itten of the tower, the turret and steeple, and their erection and use in connection with the meeting-house, now by custom (also changeable) called church, and so since 1849. As these of the various faiths were erected, there was no occasion for others until the growth of the town toward its border lines made it, and by that time the fashion had changed and the tower came into its own again. St. Mary's, on Salem street, near Malden line, whose brick tower in which is a clock paid for by Medford, was the first to build. Then Grace church, out growing its wooden chapel of 1850, acquired largely through the munificence of Mrs. Ellen Shepherd Brooks its beautiful stone church with ivy mantled tower. In ‘72 the First Methodist and the First Baptist, and in ‘73 Trinity Methodist and the Congregational (both the latter at West Medford and new organizations) erected new houses of worship—a remarkable record for two successive years. All these were of wood; all had the features of a co<
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Our Autobiography. (search)
y evening course of addresses was added to the regular meetings. At nearly all meetings, other than the annual, addresses have been given and papers read relating to Medford, its history, institutions and people. Many of these have been reproduced in the Society's quarterly publication, the Historical Register. Its issue was begun in 1897 for that express purpose, and its twenty-four volumes represent a labor of love on the part of its editors and contributors, and contain information of Medford found nowhere else. By its exchange list with other societies it is constantly adding their publications to the Society's library, thus making available sources of information. The existence of the Society started the effort for the preservation of the Royall house, and also Medford's two hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary celebration, so successfully observed. At that time former President Hooper prepared a brief history of Medford, which was published by the city's committee (comp
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Old ships and ship-building days of Medford. (search)
he merchant ships which were known in every sea on the globe. Thatcher Magoun was born at Pembroke, Mass., June 17, 1775. He early chose the trade of ship carpenter and served his time with Enos Briggs at Salem, where he worked five years. From Salem he went to Mr. Barker's yard in Charlestown (the present Navy Yard), where he worked and studied two years and assisted in modelling. There he made the model of the first vessel he built, which was the Mt. Aetna of Medford. At this time Medford consisted mainly of farmhouses scattered along the highways to Woburn and Malden. At the centre of the town was the meeting house with a cluster of dwellings. There were a half dozen hospitable taverns, several stores for barter in connection with the lightering business and several distilleries, and together with a few colonial mansions with wonderful gardens, comprised the village. The gardens back of the places owned by the Hall family had flights of stone steps leading up the steep
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Medford and her Minute Men, April 19, 1775. (search)
ng, Abagail Brooks served chocolate—chocolate, but no tea. It was at this house, too, where that militant man of God extended Christian hospitality to a wounded enemy, Lieutenant Gould of the King's Own, wounded at Concord, and while proceeding in a borrowed chaise, captured by the old men of Menotomy. In Medford, he wrote, I am now treated with the greatest humanity and taken all possible care of. These, we may imagine, were but instances of the hospitality dispensed by the good wives of Medford, both at the roadside and the hearthside. So passed the nineteenth of April in Medford, and when night came companies from other towns, too late to enter the fight, were quartered in its midst. But what, meantime, was the business of Captain Hall and his company who marched off under the waning moon, pressing on after Paul Revere? It was about half-past 10 in the evening of April eighteenth that eight hundred British regulars under Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, having assembled at the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
gland in 1617, and came over to America about 1640. He settled originally in Malden, but wisely visited Medford and apparently at once bought land here. This Peter Tufts had three sons and six daughters. The oldest son was also Peter Tufts, commonly known as Captain Peter Tufts. This younger Tufts is the centre about whom we must cluster any new legends we are to build up about the Peter Tufts house. Born probably in Malden, in 1648, he first appears on the records of the plantation of Medford in 1676, having already, at the age of twenty-eight, been honored as selectman. The title to the great oblong of land, including that of an old dwelling house and barn, had passed to his father in 1677, but by some special agreement Mr. Tufts was in possession at an earlier date. Perhaps he was a tenant in the old dwelling house while he looked over the land, though he had land of his own in Malden. Apparently his oldest son came with him to the old farm on the land there. It was not l
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., History of Wellington. (search)
ught a house in Middleton, Mass., where he is glad to welcome his many friends. For some time prior to 1872 the residents of Wellington tried to secure a bridge across the Malden river and thence over Malden bridge to Boston. The Legislature had granted the right to bridge either the Malden or Mystic, as the county commissioners should judge best for the public good, and the commissioners had, after protracted hearings, decided to bridge the Mystic near Ten-hill farm. They then ordered Medford to build that part of the road on the north side of the river and Somerville that part of the south side leading to the bridge, and the county to build the bridge. They further ordered that the street should be made thirty feet wide, but it was later changed to sixty feet. The road in Medford, now Middlesex avenue, was built by James W. Perry for $26,351. The bridge was completed early in the spring of 1874, but was not opened to the public until September. Mr. Charles A. Ellsworth took ch
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