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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Mr. Stetson's notes on information wanted. (search)
ses worthy of mention prior to 1700 were built west of the Marble brook, but that after 1700 the growth of Medford was east of that brook. Note here that of the first two meeting-houses, one was at the brook and the other yet further west. The dates of all the houses on our Tract will be instructive here, and it may appear that there was a reason why this Tract did not get built over for nearly a century after 1630. The Turell house was the earliest between the brook and Governor's lane (1720); the Watson house next, in 1750. It was a long time before the two foci of the town grew together. Medford was a spectacle town. A very high, bulky and red nose stuck up between the glasses. Later this was about the best part of Medford, but neither streets nor lots yet fit for homesteads. The colonists wanted practical convenience—not hill top villas and bungalows. The Halls owned the whole of Pasture hill, but never dreamed of living up there; they left it to the kite-flying boys a