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[p. 175] last many years; for only old residents of Medford or students of her history will recognize all the ways now known as High, Salem, Main, Riverside avenue, South, South Winthrop, Medford, Harvard, Fulton, Cross, North Winthrop, Woburn, and Grove streets. Several of the names are improvements on the present nomenclature, for there was a meaning in them, lost in the present names.
Court street, for instance, designated the shortest way to Court at East Cambridge.
It would be interesting to know why the names of many have been changed.
I hope some one may be led to find this out and put his discoveries in print.
The report brings to mind very forcibly that in May, 1829, Somerville, Arlington, and Winchester were not.
Medford, MA. 1900.
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