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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., January 15, 1738. (search)
etween the Harrington and Stratton Farms. The latter was in the northwest part of the town beyond the hills, near the junction of West and Winter Streets. Above Moody Street, on the south side of Main Street, was a house once occupied by a Captain Thayer, a carpenter and wheelwright, and then by Leonard Williams Cushing, a son of the clergyman, who sold it to Nathan Upham. It was afterwards the property of Jonas Clark, hatter, who removed to a farm east of Lexington Street, where he died atregular meetings were held till 1865, when a new organization was effected and Rev. Benton Smith began preaching in Rumford Hall. March 28, 1869, Mrs. Phoebe A. Hanaford was settled over the Society and remained with them about a year. The Rev. Dr. Thayer and others then preached to the Society until the settlement of the present pastor, Rev. M. R. Leonard, September 1, 1871. Their services are still held in Rumford Hall. Three quarters of a mile from the village of Waltham, on the road