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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 2: (search)
, John Brooks, Fitch Hall, Ebenezer Hall, 2d, and Samuel Buel, petitioned the Legislature for an act of incorporation. It was granted March 2d of that year. The name was Medford Turnpike corporation. The act required them to run the road easterly of Winter Hill and Plowed Hill. It must be three rods on the upland, and not more than six on the marsh. If not completed within three years, the grant was to be null and void. The Corporation were required to build all extra bridges over Middlesex Canal, and keep them and the sluices in repair. They could hold real estate to the amount of six thousand dollars. Shares in the stock were deemed personal property. Moderate tolls have made this the most frequented route to Boston. Attempts have several times been made to open it free of toll to the public; and the town of Medford voted their consent, in 1838, to its conversion to a free road. This was not done; and it yet continues as at the first. On this road, near the Charlestown li
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
ver, the brick-yards, opened by the brothers Isaac, Jonathan, and Ebenezer Tufts, obtained the local name. After these gentlemen came Seth Tufts, who, with his son Seth, carried on the business till recently. These yards were situated near Middlesex Canal and the river, about south-south-east from Rock Hill. The next in order of age were the yards opened in 1810 by Nathan Adams, Esq. They were situated each side of the old county road, leading from Medford over Winter Hill, and were about nuff factories. To their present owners they would have been very profitable, if frequent fires had not consumed them. Mills carried by steam-engines are now becoming common; and families are supplied with meal by the regular traders. Middlesex Canal. This was the first canal in New England, if not the first in the New World, which was opened under a charter derived from a legislature, with tolls regulated by law. The enterprising citizens of Medford were among the first movers of the
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Index. (search)
ers, 308. Leathe, 265, 530. Le Bosquet, 485. Letter, 495. Lexington Fight, 151. Libraries, 294. Light Infantry, 189. Lightering, 392. Lincoln, 30. Locke, 530. Lyceums, 295. Lynde, 44. Magoun, 48, 360. Manners and Customs, 452. Manning, 36. Mansor, 530. Map, 421. Markham, 36, 42. Martin, 36. Mather, 205. Mayhew, 36. Maverick, 2. McClure, 49. Medford a Town, 119. Melvin, 44. Methodist Society, 270. Michelson, 42. Middlesex Canal, 295. Mills, 392. Moore, 36. Mystic Church, 273. Mystic River, 6. Name, 1. Newell, 36, 44. Norton, 74. Nowell, 3, 7, 9, 14, 37, 43. Noyes, 36, 97, 121. Nutting, 531. Oakes, 36. Oldham family, 531. Oldham, 89, 100. Oliver, 538, 570. One Hundred Laws, 101. Osgood, 236, 240, 531. Oysters, 387. Palmer, 37. Parker, 51, 52, 531. Patch family, 532. Paterson, 533. Patten family, 533. Pauperism, 441. Peirce family, 533. Pember
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
ncock chosen president of the convention.] Constitution is ratified by a vote of 187 to 168......Feb. 6, 1788 Slave-trade prohibited in Massachusetts......March 26, 1788 John Adams elected Vice-President of the United States......1789 President Washington visits Boston......Oct. 24, 1789 Williams College at Williamstown, Berkshire county, founded......1790 [Incorporated June 22, 1793. Congregational.] John Hancock dies at Quincy, aged fifty-six......Oct. 8, 1793 Middlesex canal projected......1793 John Adams President of the United States......March 4, 1797 Frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, built at Boston......1799 Bradford Academy (for women), Bradford, opened......1803 Andover Theological Seminary (Congregational ) opened......1808 State averse to war with England. The legislature, in an address to the people, declare themselves unable to find any satisfactory solution of it, but in an habitual and impolitic predilection for France ......
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex Canal. (search)
Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex Canal. By Herbert Pierce Yeaton. Navigation on the Merrimac River. the Canals of the Merrimac River had their day and active existence in the first half of the last century. They have been referred to as the earliest step towards a solution of the problem of cheap transportation between Boston and the northern country; but perhaps they may be more properly classed as the second step in that direction, the turnpikes having been in the field. James Sullivan and his associates, the original projectors of the canal system, undoubtedly had in mind, not only to connect Boston with the Merrimac River country, but also to extend their canals from the Merrimac to the Connecticut River, and from the Connecticut River to Lake Champlain, and through its outlet to the St. Lawrence, thus bringing Boston into island water communication with Montreal and the lower Canada. The project was too vast, and the physical obstacles too formidable to admit
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Index (search)
Merrimac River, Canals of49 Mico, Ann13 Middlesex Canal, The49, 50, 51, 52, 57 Middlesex Canal, Middlesex Canal, Act of Incorporation of52 Middlesex Canal, Aqueducts of58 Middlesex Canal, Bridges of58 MiddleseMiddlesex Canal, Aqueducts of58 Middlesex Canal, Bridges of58 Middlesex Canal, Charter of52 Middlesex Canal, Cost of58 Middlesex Canal, Dimensions of58 Middlesex CanaMiddlesex Canal, Charter of52 Middlesex Canal, Cost of58 Middlesex Canal, Dimensions of58 Middlesex Canal, Laborers, Pay of58 Middlesex Canal, Lock of58 Middlesex Canal, Meeting of Directors of53 MiddMiddlesex Canal, Cost of58 Middlesex Canal, Dimensions of58 Middlesex Canal, Laborers, Pay of58 Middlesex Canal, Lock of58 Middlesex Canal, Meeting of Directors of53 Middlesex Canal, Opening of49 Middlesex Canal, Proprietors of52 Middlesex Village49, 57 Middletown, Middlesex Canal, Dimensions of58 Middlesex Canal, Laborers, Pay of58 Middlesex Canal, Lock of58 Middlesex Canal, Meeting of Directors of53 Middlesex Canal, Opening of49 Middlesex Canal, Proprietors of52 Middlesex Village49, 57 Middletown, Conn.19 Milford, Conn.13 Miller, James79 Mills, Samuel43, 44 Miles, Rev. John37 Miles ( Myles)Middlesex Canal, Laborers, Pay of58 Middlesex Canal, Lock of58 Middlesex Canal, Meeting of Directors of53 Middlesex Canal, Opening of49 Middlesex Canal, Proprietors of52 Middlesex Village49, 57 Middletown, Conn.19 Milford, Conn.13 Miller, James79 Mills, Samuel43, 44 Miles, Rev. John37 Miles ( Myles), Samuel, Schoolmaster, 168437, 38 Minute Men, The79 Mistick Side15 Mistick Side Schoolhouse64 Middlesex Canal, Meeting of Directors of53 Middlesex Canal, Opening of49 Middlesex Canal, Proprietors of52 Middlesex Village49, 57 Middletown, Conn.19 Milford, Conn.13 Miller, James79 Mills, Samuel43, 44 Miles, Rev. John37 Miles ( Myles), Samuel, Schoolmaster, 168437, 38 Minute Men, The79 Mistick Side15 Mistick Side Schoolhouse64 Montreal49 Moore, Abraham M.43 Moor's Falls50 Morley, Catharine19 Morley, John, Schoolmaster, 1Middlesex Canal, Opening of49 Middlesex Canal, Proprietors of52 Middlesex Village49, 57 Middletown, Conn.19 Milford, Conn.13 Miller, James79 Mills, Samuel43, 44 Miles, Rev. John37 Miles ( Myles), Samuel, Schoolmaster, 168437, 38 Minute Men, The79 Mistick Side15 Mistick Side Schoolhouse64 Montreal49 Moore, Abraham M.43 Moor's Falls50 Morley, Catharine19 Morley, John, Schoolmaster, 165219 Morley, Ralph19 Morris, Martha14 Morton, Nicholas60 Moulton's Point90 Mount Pleasant StrMiddlesex Canal, Proprietors of52 Middlesex Village49, 57 Middletown, Conn.19 Milford, Conn.13 Miller, James79 Mills, Samuel43, 44 Miles, Rev. John37 Miles ( Myles), Samuel, Schoolmaster, 168437, 38 Minute Men, The79 Mistick Side15 Mistick Side Schoolhouse64 Montreal49 Moore, Abraham M.43 Moor's Falls50 Morley, Catharine19 Morley, John, Schoolmaster, 165219 Morley, Ralph19 Morris, Martha14 Morton, Nicholas60 Moulton's Point90 Mount Pleasant Street, Somerville44 Mousall, Ralph17 Moylan, Colonel Stephen87 Moylan's Dragoons87 Munroe, Charle[3 more...]
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal. (search)
Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal. By Herbert Pierce Yeaton. [Concluded.] the canal began at Middlesex Village, on the Merrimac river in the town of Chelmsford, and was lifted through a connected flight of three locks, passing under the main street over an aqueduct across the brook-near which are some quaint oldfor contemplation. In the now quiet hamlet, where trade was once active and manufacturing kept many busy, still stands the office of the collector of the old Middlesex canal. It is a very small structure, and in very good repair, and is surrounded by traces of the enterprise that called it into being. (A few rods away to the nore Boston & Maine. The latter stands like a sentry, as it were, forbidding the corpse of the old canal it has slain to rise again; yet, even in death, the old Middlesex canal is remembered by its ancient friend, the Merrimac, whose waters ebb and flow in a narrow culvert connecting the river with the shrub-grown valley which marks
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, chapter 5 (search)
as abandoned. The next house was the Adams house, built for the son of Joseph Adams, of Winter Hill. This house is more than a hundred years old, and to it the Lady Superior and thirty scholars fled for protection on the night of the burning of the Ursuline Convent, August, 1834. On the same side of the street and next below lived the family of Mr. Griffin. He was a brickmaker, and in the next house was a family by the name of Torrey. From Main street the boats running on the old Middlesex canal could be plainly seen passing to and fro in summer, while in winter the canal was the resort of skaters from quite a distance. What stagnation in business must have ensued when navigation was suspended on that great highway of commerce! There were no houses in 1840 between Walnut and Cross streets. Zzz These crossways were not then called streets, but were styled lanes. Thus Cross street was known as Three Pole Lane. There was a very old house with a sloping roof on the corner
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, The teaching of local history in the public schools (search)
l Revere's ride. Battle of Lexington and Concord. (Route through Somerville.) (Fighting on Somerville soil.) Battle of Bunker Hill. Siege of Boston. (General plan of fortification.) (Somerville's fortifications.) (Memorial battery on Central Hill.) (Raising of first flag of Continental army.) (Quartering of Burgoyne's captured troops.) (Residences of generals, and other houses of note.) Growth of this portion of Charlestown. Prominent persons. Industrial and commercial life. (Middlesex Canal.) (Railroads, steam and street.) (Manufacturing enterprises.) Separation from Charlestown. Reasons. Date. Name and why selected. Somerville in the Civil War. Change from town government to city. Date, charters, seal. Mayors and a few other prominent officials. To this should be added a sketch of the educational history of the city, with a brief history of the particular school which the child attends, together with a brief account of the man whose name it bears, noting the
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
, 5, 10, 27. Middlesex Bleachery, 88. Middlesex Canal, 22. Middlesex Canal, Course of, The, 1,Middlesex Canal, Course of, The, 1, 2. 3, 4. Middlesex Canal, Fare on. 5. Middlesex Canal, Historical Sketch of, concluded, 1-11Middlesex Canal, Fare on. 5. Middlesex Canal, Historical Sketch of, concluded, 1-11. Middlesex Canal, Locks on, 1, 2. 3. Middlesex Canal. Merchandise Boats on. 4, 5. MiddlesMiddlesex Canal, Historical Sketch of, concluded, 1-11. Middlesex Canal, Locks on, 1, 2. 3. Middlesex Canal. Merchandise Boats on. 4, 5. Middlesex Canal, Passage Boats on, 6. Middlesex Canal, Rafts on, 6. Middlesex Canal, Regulations of Middlesex Canal, Locks on, 1, 2. 3. Middlesex Canal. Merchandise Boats on. 4, 5. Middlesex Canal, Passage Boats on, 6. Middlesex Canal, Rafts on, 6. Middlesex Canal, Regulations of 7. Middlesex Canal, Toll on, 4. Middlesex Canal Tow Path, 7. Middlesex Village, 1, 5, 9, 10.Middlesex Canal. Merchandise Boats on. 4, 5. Middlesex Canal, Passage Boats on, 6. Middlesex Canal, Rafts on, 6. Middlesex Canal, Regulations of 7. Middlesex Canal, Toll on, 4. Middlesex Canal Tow Path, 7. Middlesex Village, 1, 5, 9, 10. Milborne, Captain, Peter, 29. Milk Row, District of, 15, 87, 88. Milk Row Primary School, 7Middlesex Canal, Passage Boats on, 6. Middlesex Canal, Rafts on, 6. Middlesex Canal, Regulations of 7. Middlesex Canal, Toll on, 4. Middlesex Canal Tow Path, 7. Middlesex Village, 1, 5, 9, 10. Milborne, Captain, Peter, 29. Milk Row, District of, 15, 87, 88. Milk Row Primary School, 70. Milk Row School, 89, 90, 91, 93. Milk Street, Boston, 30. Miller, James, 90. Miller, RichaMiddlesex Canal, Rafts on, 6. Middlesex Canal, Regulations of 7. Middlesex Canal, Toll on, 4. Middlesex Canal Tow Path, 7. Middlesex Village, 1, 5, 9, 10. Milborne, Captain, Peter, 29. Milk Row, District of, 15, 87, 88. Milk Row Primary School, 70. Milk Row School, 89, 90, 91, 93. Milk Street, Boston, 30. Miller, James, 90. Miller, Richard, 12. Miller, Stephen, 90, 91. Mistick, 31, 32. Mistick River, 29. Mitchell, Luther, 22. 38Middlesex Canal, Regulations of 7. Middlesex Canal, Toll on, 4. Middlesex Canal Tow Path, 7. Middlesex Village, 1, 5, 9, 10. Milborne, Captain, Peter, 29. Milk Row, District of, 15, 87, 88. Milk Row Primary School, 70. Milk Row School, 89, 90, 91, 93. Milk Street, Boston, 30. Miller, James, 90. Miller, Richard, 12. Miller, Stephen, 90, 91. Mistick, 31, 32. Mistick River, 29. Mitchell, Luther, 22. 38. Mitchell, —, 79. Mitchell, Nathaniel, 22. Morse. Rev. Abner, 49, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56. Mount BeMiddlesex Canal, Toll on, 4. Middlesex Canal Tow Path, 7. Middlesex Village, 1, 5, 9, 10. Milborne, Captain, Peter, 29. Milk Row, District of, 15, 87, 88. Milk Row Primary School, 70. Milk Row School, 89, 90, 91, 93. Milk Street, Boston, 30. Miller, James, 90. Miller, Richard, 12. Miller, Stephen, 90, 91. Mistick, 31, 32. Mistick River, 29. Mitchell, Luther, 22. 38. Mitchell, —, 79. Mitchell, Nathaniel, 22. Morse. Rev. Abner, 49, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56. Mount Benedict, 3, 9. Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 74. Much Bromley, Essex County, Eng., 73. Mystick Bridge,
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