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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 1 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
woody portion and washing away the mucilage. Schenck's retting apparatus, 1851, consists of circular vats, in which the flax is placed, being kept down by a weight while it is swelled by water maintained at a heat of 90° by the introduction of steam Passing to the acetous fermentation, the mucilage is rendered perfectly soluble and is run off, the flax being then removed and dried. The process takes about sixty hours. The flax is exposed to the air upon frames or dried by steam heat. Bower's retting process (English) consists in alternately steeping and rolling the stalks, so as to soften and press out the mucilage by the alternate process. Caustic ammonia, or other salt, is added to the rain water, in which the plant is steeped. (Ammonia, 1 pound; water, at 90° to 120°, 150 pounds.) The process takes about thirty hours Another process consists in the repeated application of an alkaline solution in a vessel exhausted of air. This is said to take but a few hours. Heat i
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Historical address of the former commander of Grimes Battery. (search)
Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, G. W. Graves, Acting Master Commanding. To Lieutenant Commander C. W. Flusher. Commanding Naval Forces at Elizabeth City, N. C. Now Mr. Graves was very much mistaken as to the damage to us. No man was injured in the affair on our side, nor was any damage done to our gun. We did retreat and return to our camp at Richardson's mill. When we returned to Portsmouth, we bivouacked for a short time on Edward's farm, and on May 8th were ordered to Bower's Hill. From there we went to Petersburg, arriving on the 14th of May. Then on the 24th of May we were sent to Drewry's Bluff. and at midnight on the 28th reached Richmond, sleeping the balance of the night on the stone steps of the custom house. Next morning, Mrs. K. Adams, who kept a bakery, generously treated the whole company to a hot breakfast, which they enjoyed and so highly appreciated that the men afterwards held a meeting and adopted resolutions of thanks, which were present
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
the First Rhode Island, and drives them vigorously back. The Second Virginia tries in vain to check this charge; its commander, having leaped over a large ditch at the head of his men, is surrounded and captured. The fight is now carried on with side-arms in a narrow road where the Unionists have pursued their adversaries; the latter are definitely stopped and compelled to fall back upon their reserves. Lee, finding the left of the enemy so strong, decides to try his right, and orders Colonel Bower to make an effort to outflank him with his regiment, the Fifth Virginia. But these troops have scarcely advanced a short distance in that direction when they find themselves confronted by McIntosh's brigade and the Federal guns. Received by a terrible fire, the regiment is quickly driven back in disorder, and this causes the retreat of the whole Confederate line. The Unionists, who have been astonished at so vigorous an attack, do not take advantage of this opportunity to press the en
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., Medford Smelt and Smelt Brooks. (search)
fers to. Medford people will do well to become better acquainted with its sylvan retreats. Lost, A Medford mill site, formerly occupied by one John Albree, a weaver, who bought land in Medford in 1720. Was seen near Mr. Noah Johnson's in 1855. The water supply was small, and failing, the mill fell into disuse. Any information relative to the same will be thankfully received by the editor. Wanted, Some one to write up the story of the Frenchman's mill, whose location was at the Bower. Inquiry has been made therefor by a former resident of Medford, and a paper containing facts will be welcome at the Register office. Strayed or stolen, A Medford streamlet known as Whitmore brook. Its usual course lay between Bear meadow and Mystic river. For the last few years it has had times of disappearance; is said to have been abducted by the market farmers, or stolen by the gypsy moth. Any one restoring the same will be gratefully remembered. Wanted, Some one with ci
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., History told by names of streets. (search)
m Grove street near by. Mr. Brooks planted a grove in the Delta in 1820; from this may have come the name given the old Cambridge road to Woburn, now Grove street. Bower (not Bowers) street was so called by Thomas P. Smith, land owner, for a Bower street where he had formerly lived, and which similarly got the name from a grove orees. Harvard avenue was the West Medford way to the college, as was Harvard street before mentioned from South Medford. Circuit street is a circuitous route from Bower, beside the railroad, and to Bower again. Within a few years a real estate trust has, on the Francis Brooks estate, opened Jackson, Woodland and Newton roads, KBower again. Within a few years a real estate trust has, on the Francis Brooks estate, opened Jackson, Woodland and Newton roads, Kilgore, Pitcher, Johnson and Tyler avenues (all names of the company), and has preserved the Brooks monument to Sagamore John at Sagamore avenue and place. Ravine road and Lakeview are thus appropriately named. In this article we have covered mainly the South and West Medford sections, with less than one hundred names. To ment
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Meeting-house brook. (search)
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, is an opening where flowed the brook, and through this pass, in the distance, the still rising and surrounding hills are seen. To the right is another opening some rods nearer, which is lined with stone walls on either side. Yes, this is the Bower (so called fifty years ago), the site of the ancient mill, where the early dwellers of Meadford came with their corn for grinding; and here, possibly, the first lumber was sawed in the old town by power. It is more than probable that boards fo
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
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., The
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—Jo, Han——Lin, Tim, Ca. Sam (uel) and Lin (coln) each had an eldest son, Benjamin Lincoln. One of these must have been the author of the poem, and along with our Mr. Hooper one of the schoolboys he tells of in his writing of the bower on p. 13, Vol. XXII, of the Register. We incline to the thought that he was son of the Benjamin Lincoln Swan who moved to New York. Lines on Revisiting a favorite spot Called the Bower, in the Woods of Medford, after several years' absence Beautiful Bower! my long-loved spot, In boyhood's sunny days, Happy and rare has been thy lot, For finger of change has marr'd thee not, Or spirit of cold decay. Touchingly true thy features look To memory's glistening eye; It knoweth them all—the shady nook— The dark grey rock and the little brook So merrily whirling by. The sinuous path with leaves bestrew'd, The bank with moss o'ergrown, The sunless gloom of the hemlock wood And that old sycamore tree that stood Just down by the stream alone. The
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., The beginning of a New village. (search)
Bower street by Mr. Smith because of a street in Roxbury (where he formerly lived) and perhaps because of a bower of trees thereon. Note, this is not Bowers, but Bower. This street connected at its end with Canal street, which crossed the railway equally as acutely as does High, but in a different direction. On the left of Cantreets outlined, and in a way sub-graded, and lot bounds staked. A surveyor had preceded us, and we found Riverside avenue marked out with two plough furrows from Bower to River street (now Harvard avenue). We began extensive repairs (much needed) on the Canal house, and took up our own residence in one of the houses, now moved awme to old Ship street. Holton street is named in honor of another of the land company who laid it out to make possible a corner lot for Trinity Church. First, from Bower to Boston avenue, it was later extended to Sharon, where is the Hervey school. This tract of land we have described is bounded on one side by four shining bands
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