...state of Mr. Brooks, then as now a place of beauty. At that time two great black walnut trees reared their stately forms skyward, near the old brick wall built by Pomp, the slave; for others beside Colonel Royall had slaves in Medford in the old colonial days. There is now but one of these trees, and a rare specimen of its kind. It marks the location of the old mansion of colony times, when we were under...