...o existence as a settlement. There was but a house or two on Purchase street (now North Winthrop street) as far as the present Winchester line; and the same might be said of Forest street up to the Stoneham line, —as well as of Salem street below Fulton street to the Maiden line. On Main street, from the present Stearns' avenue to the Somerville line, there were only two or three houses. To...