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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., How Medford began to grow. (search)
hen at Wellington with his brother, Dr. Swan, in 1851, noted that Mr. Wellington has 2 Barns one is 96 feet long 40 feet wide one is 72 feet long 40 feet wide each barn has 4 Ventilators (small wooden chimneys) along the summit of the roof. Evidently this was something new in Medford. Mr. Brooks places the outlay of Wellington as on November 1, 1853, speaks of its parallel streets, nearness to Boston, and facilities for travel by railroad, but is silent about the six-mile drive that Mr. Wait mentions in this issue of the Register. Wellington retains its name, but how many in Medford know Williamsburg? Twenty houses on either side of Myrtle street, built in 1854, were so called from the name of the builder, who built all to one plan on alternate lots, with none fronting another. Small houses that contained no modern improvements they were, but lured people from the crowded city. Among the number was the French naturalist, Louis Trouvellot, whose gypsy moths have become so