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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Susanna Rowson. (search)
ars. Mr. Usher, speaking of the place, says he can well recollect the two gardens of choice shrubbery in front of the building, the double row of stately trees fringing those gardens, and the long avenue between them, which led from High street to the mansion and to the greenhouse in the rear. Those buildings and most of those trees have disappeared, and the grounds occupied by Mrs. Rowson's school (the most popular, perhaps, at that time in the country), are now in the possession of Mr. J. W. Tufts and the Episcopal Church. The apartment devoted to the Sunday-school of that church being almost upon the identical spot which the schoolroom formerly occupied. I quote again from her biographer a description of the location which one would hardly now recognize: the house, near that of Gov. John Brooks, is delightfully situated on the left or eastern bank of the Mystic river, which winds through meadows of the deepest green to meet the sea. Built on the acclivity rising gradually from