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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., History of Wellington. (search)
te, the entrance to Wellington farm, which was owned and tilled by the brothers Isaac and James Wellington, their fertile acres unbroken by street or railroad. The Red Gate was located on Fourth street, a few rods east of its junction with Riverside avenue. In those days Middlesex avenue had not been thought of, and what is now Riverside avenue, between the end of Fourth street and the Fellsway, was marsh land, a part of the thirty acres of land called the pine swamps, which was sold in 1656 by the Cradock heirs to Mr. Edward Collins of Cambridge. Mr. Collins sold this land, with four and a half acres of upland, to Mr. George Blanchard. The remains of these pine trees can still be seen on the marsh near the side of Blackbird Village, and it is safe to say that many of these trees must have been marked with the king's arrow, such was their size. The Western Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad cut through the Wellington farm in 1839, and the Medford Branch Railroad was inc