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Notes here and there.
‘Gather up the fragments that nothing be lost.’
The Hathaway school.
The following list of pupils during the summer of 1850 is contributed by
Mrs. Susan B. (
Noyes)
Thompson of
Medford.
Mr. A. K. Hathaway kept a boarding school at his home on Ashland street, corner of Chestnut street. The school room was in the rear, facing Chestnut street, and is now changed into a dwelling.
Miss Annette Hale,
Mr. Hathaway's sister-in-law, was his assistant.
| Mary A. Tay, | Medford |
| Mary A. Hathaway, | Medford |
| Sarah Hathaway, | Medford |
| Sarah Miller, | Medford |
| Georgie Pearce, | Medford |
| Helen Mills, | Medford |
| Ellen Green, | Medford |
| William Adams, | New York |
| George P. Floyd, | Medford |
| Samuel Vaughan, | Medford |
| Edward Bacon, | Medford |
| Thatcher Magoun, | Medford |
| Otis Litchfield, | Medford |
| Edward Holman, | Medford |
| Mary A. Jackman, | Byfield |
| Mary S. Moody, | Byfield |
| Frances F. Stimpson, | Vermont |
| Emily Angier, | Boston |
| Josephine Bates, | Boston |
| Josephine Smith, | Boston |
| Susie B. Noyes, Falmouth, Me. |
| Herbert Holman, | Medford |
| Hermon Mills, | Medford |
| Samuel C. Lawrence, | Medford |
| Silsby Thomas, | Medford |
| Samuel S. Green, | Medford |
| George Evans, | Boston |
| Alfred Evans, | Boston |
| Traverse Morong, | Woburn. |
The Mystic house.
This summer an old landmark has been removed from its old foundations and now stands in Tufts Square, to be remodeled for mercantile and other purposes.
It is the old Mystic House, famous for its hospitality in the palmy days of the trotting park.
The long rows of stables were removed last year.
The track has not yet been disturbed and occasionally one sees a trotter taking
[p. 66] his exercise there, but the ‘
Park’ is a thing of the past, and the names of the streets which are being built across it will alone recall the days when
Wright,
Billings,
Willis and
Alexander controlled the place and
Bonner's horses under the hands of jockeys like Golden,
Doble,
Trout and others came under the wire amid the plaudits of thousands.
The
Mystic House occupied the site of the ‘tenement’ mentioned in early deeds of Ten Hill Farm.
Before 1850 the land upon which it stood was the
Nathan Adams Farm.
From the Selectmen's records.
Some of us who groan at the price of fuel in 1906 may take courage and cease to bemoan the ‘good old days of yore,’ as we read the following item from the
Medford Selectmen's records:—
‘Voted to pass
Timothy Dexter's acct for 14 cords of hard wood & 6 cords walnut dld
Dr. Osgood the year past agreeable to vote of the
Town past 13 May 1812 at $6.50, $130.00.’
The bill for the same quantity in 1809 was $114.00.
Opposite Blanchard's Hotel on Main street, just south of the land taken in recent years by the Metropolitan Park Commission, was a town well, used principally for watering cattle.
The trough was at the edge of the sidewalk.
July 1, 1811, Voted to have a new pump placed in the
Town's well on the south side of the river near the house of
Timothy Symmes, and a good trough fixed to the same.
August 5, 1811, Voted to pass
Samuel Townsend's acct.
for a pump in the well opposite the
Hotel. $11.71.
A permit was granted to
Jonathan Porter to build a powder house, May 12, 1806.
The structure is standing
[p. 67] on the premises of
Charles M. Green, M. D., Powder House Road. It is of brick, with small apertures for air, and a heavy wooden door.
Standing Committee of the
Brooks Phalanx, January 1st, 1844:
Eben Waterman,
David Carlton,
B. H. Samson,
W. B. Thomas,
George Holmes.
