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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Some notes from my Scrapbook. (search)
r the purpose of criticising the maps, but to place upon record the true course of the brook so far as it may be ascertained at the present time. By an examination of Walling's map of Medford, it will be found that the brook is thereupon represented as flowing across Buzzell's lane as it runs in a curved course from the low land near the location of College avenue. The maker of this map failed to complete his work by tracing the course of the brook to the boundary line between Medford and Somerville. Fortunately there is a copy of another map that supplies the necessary link. This copy is referred to as it is easy of reference for the readers of the Historical Register. It may be found in the article entitled The Walnut-tree Hill Division of the Stinted Pasture, in Vol. 15, No. 2. Join the two plans and we have a fairly accurate plan of the original location of the brook. Some years before the many clay pits had been excavated, and after the course of the brook had been changed,