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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Medford Hillside. (search)
ically considered, this section of the town was peculiar. The railroad bounded it on one side, Winthrop street and the lofty reservoir, then but eight years built and by some thought a menace, formed another, while the zig-zag boundary of old Charlestown extended from Winthrop street around it across the railroad to Second beach, which is now only a memory. Between this crooked line and the winding river lay a portion of Somerville, partially marsh-land. On this were three residents, Thomas Martin, William McCracken (better known as Billy Hamilton, the wild Irishman) and Bernard Born, the engineer at the pumping station of the water works. Thus in a measure isolated, the Hillside people have always had a neighborhood feeling, and on several occasions local celebrations of public holidays, creditable both to promoters and participants. Close under the shadow of the college the little (?) red schoolhouse found a place, as also did churches, which first met in private houses, lat