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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Meeting-house brook. (search)
Meeting-house brook. A few years ago we received a request from an elderly man, long absent from, but Medford born, that some one write for the Register the story of the Frenchman's mill. He passed away soon after, and we know not where the mill he named was, unless it was that mentioned in Vol. IV, p. 51, of the Register, and again by Mr. Woolley in his story of the brook of Medford, beside which was the Second Meeting-house. His description revived an interest awakened by reading of the Bower in Brooks' History, and led to A Midwinter Ramble. The glorious sunshine of a recent winter morning was an allurement that decided the writer to take a woodland ramble that had been long deferred, and nine o'clock found him at High street, looking into the waters of Meeting-house brook. So he said, Well, old brook, I've seen you many times before in your straight-jacket at High street, and in your serpentine wriggling ere you lost yourself in the river; but I'll make your acquai
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., A Rill of water-troughs. (search)
A Rill of water-troughs. As a matter of history, be it noted that Medford has gone dry (this in 1914) in the matter of public watering places for horses. Within the memory of our oldest people the principal highways passed through Meetinghouse, Gravelly and Whitmore brooks, as well as over their various bridges. There horses and cattle could drink or the family carriage be washed. Mr. Woolley has preserved a view of the first-named in his picture of the second meeting-house. Time was when the town-pump was indispensable and its condition carefully noted by the fire engineers. To such, a necessary adjunct was the old-time watering-trough, kept full by the laborious effort of each comer, though some thoughtless ones did not fill it. After Spot pond water was introduced, the old troughs disappeared and drinking fountains of various patterns were installed. In the square, and at West Medford, a big iron vase with a lamp-post rising from its center made an ornamental feature,