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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., A communication. (search)
ned there. The illustration, like all other ideal pictures, is open to criticism. In Vol. XXI, No. 3, p. 67, the writer of the article says, Yes, this is the Bower . . . the site of the ancient mill. When I attended the West grammar school in the old brick schoolhouse that stood at the rear of the Unitarian church lot, the wnding in such positions as to form a bower. We spent the forenoon in picking wild flowers and in rambling about the woods in the immediate vicinity. This was the Bower mentioned by Mr. Brooks and the Bower of my boyhood. Every boy and girl of that generation knew its location. Mr. Brooks published his history some years after Is in the immediate vicinity. This was the Bower mentioned by Mr. Brooks and the Bower of my boyhood. Every boy and girl of that generation knew its location. Mr. Brooks published his history some years after I used to visit the place. It was nowhere near the site of the old mill-dam or near any other dam site. John H. Hooper.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Historical inaccuracies. (search)
c our Representative Burrell advocates becomes a reality. Thirdly. About the Bower. We plead not guilty to conscious historical falsehood (italics our own) in thrtainly the writer of the Midwinter Ramble is now in a maze, if not then in the Bower, for by the communication of Mr. H. the Bower mentioned by Mr. Brooks was not wBower mentioned by Mr. Brooks was not where the writer thought he had found it, not by a dam site. We will now quote Mr. Brooks, (page 393):— There was a mill at the place now called the Bower, aboutBower, about a mile north of the meeting-house of the first parish, carried by the water of Marble Brook. The banks, race, canal and cellar are yet traceable. This was used foand accepting the only mention known to him as correct, wrote, Yes, this is the Bower (so-called fifty years ago), the site of the ancient mill. He regrets his inacsehood, and suggests a pilgrimage of interested readers to the real site of the Bower as located by former President Hooper, and farther on to the dam, of which stru