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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., The meridian monument (search)
masonry, on which was a mark that could be seen from the observatory. The Middlesex (Southern) Registry of Deeds shows a record of conveyance of land by Benjamin F. Parker to the President and Fellows of Harvard College in August, 1847, for the named consideration of fifty dollars. The premises adjoined no street, but a right enty years or more, when the instrument in the observatory was, in 1870, superseded by another and the use of the cairn as a meridian mark was discontinued. Mr. Parker died in 1862 and was survived by his widow as late as 1896, when to her the college corporation conveyed the ground for the named consideration of ninety dollarng or was endowed with perpetual youth. The location is (by air line) about three and three-quarters miles from the observatory. (The land was later sold by Mrs. Parker to E. S. Randall et al., and still later to another.) More recent inquiry reveals the fact that a similar monument was built southward at Jamaica Plain; also