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[p. 20] excursions, in 1868, the photographer took his cumbrous camera along and took a picture looking eastward from that vicinity.
It has a wide foreground of open fields, a few houses about the West Medford railway station, a half-dozen or so on Brooks and Allston streets—a notable contrast to the present view.
During these forty years a marked change has taken place, and a city has arisen.
All this is of the past, and worthy of record, but another summer will show the completion of the Cradock dam, then motor-boats and canoes will be plenty on the new Mystic, and pass peacefully over the site of the old Wood's dam.
Medford, MA. 1909.
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