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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., More about the turnpike (search)
n whose brain the idea of a level road to Charlestown, in two unbroken straight lines, originated, we cannot say; probably that of Benjamin Hall, then the leading business man of Medford, who took one-tenth of its capital stock. Medford was, in 1803, a town of but twelve hundred inhabitants, its only direct route to Boston being the old road over the top of Winter hill, through Charlestown to the Charles river bridge but fourteen years built. It was a long, hard pull up and over the hill, nossed on and their shares were held by their heirs or assigns by purchase in its better days. To them there was nothing coming. It would be of interest to know just what was realized in dividends for the use of the $440.00 per share invested in 1803-4. The Middlesex canal, on ceasing to pay dividends in 1843 had returned to its stockholders 1.39 per cent. on their investment, but had the proceeds of its property to distribute at the last. It was styled financially a dismal failure. We ha
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., Medford Saltmarsh Corporation. (search)
ld after three weeks advertising by posting at house of worship. Their petition shows clearly that their marshland was at the extreme corner of the original Cradock farm. Since then Medford has expanded by the annexation of a strip of Malden territory, and, within our memory, of another farther on from Everett, which was also formerly of Malden, both of which form the present Wellington district. At the Mystic river end of that old boundary, be it remembered, was the brick landing place in 1803. The other end must have been where, on Malden line, the marsh and upland joined. Just now a glance at Walling's map of Medford (1855) is interesting. It shows the names of some twenty owners of marsh land below Labor-in-vain, among which are a few of those corporators of fifty years before. A look from the windows of the Fellsway car as it rapidly passes the spot today is equally so, revealing the remains of the dyke—the fence is long since gone—and the stump marsh or pine swamp, unique
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., The beginning of a New village. (search)
Samson was the occupant of the house in ‘70. Mr. Lincoln's home was directly opposite, and his land adjoined the Canal house land, which latter was a part of the Smith estate. He was a carpenter by trade, one of the old stock, who knew and did excellent work; and a very worthy man. This street was a town way, and got its name because it was the way to Landing No. 4 of the Middlesex canal, the famous waterway which connected Boston harbor with the Merrimac river at Chelmsford (now Lowell) in 1803. Near this landing (now 120-122 Boston avenue) was the canal tavern, such as were found at every lock along the canal's course. It was occupied at the time of the sale by Thomas Martin, an excellent stone-mason, who laid much of the stone wall on the Brooks estate. The Smith estate also included the brick house on Canal street, which was built in 1812 by the town for its almshouse, and all the land opposite from Prescott street, bordering Whitmore brook, except the Gamage corner. None of
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. (search)
to repel a boarding party to greater advantage. She was very sharp, both forward and aft, and had considerable width, her water line length being but about three and one-half times her greatest breadth. She was built entirely for speed. Her sharp body lines and great dead-rise, which was thirty-six inches at half floor, made her cargo capacity small. After the war of 1812, there was a great improvement in the design of cargo-carrying vessels. Shipbuilding had been started in Medford in 1803 and was firmly established here at this period. So the town was destined to take a prominent, if not a leading part in the development of the American merchant ship. The Plate 2 Ship Australia, 1849 largest ships of the time were built here, and having ten large ship yards within a distance of a mile helped to systematize the industry. In 1845 one quarter of the shipbuilders in the Commonwealth were employed in this town, and built nearly one-quarter of the ships constructed in the sta
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The road through the woods. (search)
a veritable lovers' lane. We recall that after the ceremony many years ago another happy couple rode over the same unfrequented road one moonlight night to their new home in the West End of Medford. It was then known as Grove street, but not till about a century ago it was announced by the selectmen thus: From High street near the canal bridge by P. C. Brooks' to Symmes corner, Grove street. This reminds us that the Middlesex canal had been cut through the Brooks land and in operation in 1803. The bridge at High street was somewhat elevated and one was required to unite the dissevered parts of his estate. In 1820, Mr. Brooks, at his own expense, had built one of granite, an elliptical arch of marvelous beauty and construction. After the closing of the canal it was ever kept in excellent condition until it passed into new ownership which failed to appreciate its historic worth to the new village and used it in cellar wall building. But at the other end of the Brooks property, j
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Thatcher Magoun house. (search)
through Cambridge to old Menotomy across Wear bridge, through High Street to Col. Brooks' residence in the easterly end of the old Watson house [demolished in 1916] next the meetinghouse. Their horses were taken to the barn of Mr. Isaac Greenleaf (nearly opposite Dr. Osgood's) [present Unitarian parsonage], where Capt. Ward from Salem afterward built his house and died, and now owned and occupied by Thatcher Magoun. Mr. Swan also noted, that Thatcher Magoun, Sr., came to Medford about 1803, married Miss Mary Bradshaw of Medford, died April 16, 1856, aged 80, and that she died April 23, 1862, aged 78. They had daughters, Susan, Mary and Martha, and son Thatcher, who married his cousin, Martha Tufts of Charlestown. Susan married Rev. Dr. Wm. Adams of New York, died—— and Martha became second wife of Dr. Adams. After the death of Mrs. Capt. Ward, aged 70, in 1831, Thatcher Magoun, Jr., bought the Captain Ward place, into which he moved and occupied as before quoted. And wh
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
many offices, nor enjoyed such a long and uninterrupted career, as John Quincy Adams. He was Minister to the Netherlands under Washington, 1794-96; Minister to Portugal, 1796-'97; Minister to Prussia during the Administration of his father, 1797-1803; Senator, 1803-'8; Minister to Russia under Madison, 1809-'13; Commissioner to Ghent, 1813-'14; Minister to England, 1815- '17; Secretary of State under Monroe, 1812-'24; President, 1825-'29; and member of Congress from 1831 to 1847, the date of h1803-'8; Minister to Russia under Madison, 1809-'13; Commissioner to Ghent, 1813-'14; Minister to England, 1815- '17; Secretary of State under Monroe, 1812-'24; President, 1825-'29; and member of Congress from 1831 to 1847, the date of his death. Thus, in a period of fifty-three years, he intervals between the laying down of one office and the assumption of another amount, when added together, to less than two years."-- Philadelphia Press. The official career of General Lewis Case has been even longer than that of Mr. Adams. Commencing as a member of the first State Legislature of Ohio, in 1802, he has been in high public position ever since — a period of fifty-eight years. Within that time he has been Governor of a Terri
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
ty, in proof of the monstrous crimes attributed to General Bonaparte.--It was not in Wilson's nature to examine very strictly anything which tended to the discredit of Bonaparte, and so he readily adopted the lies of the pamphlet. About the same time he published a work upon the organization of the British army, in which he denounced the practice of corporal punishment with all the vehemence peculiar to his character, for he was no half-way man about anything. The war broke out again in 1803, but as the English sent no army to the continent, Wilson, no doubt much to his discomfort, was compelled to remain quiet until 1806, when he went abroad with the embassy of Lord Hutchinson. In December he joined the Russian army in Poland, and was once more in his element. He participated in all the terrible battles of that terrible campaign, was present at Pultusk, Eylan, Friedland, and many other less decisive actions, fought like a lion in all of them, and attracted the particular attent
The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal accident. (search)
age. A single ball from the land battery, striking the side of one of his vessels, instantly sunk her with all aboard. In 1801, the French, with three frigates and six thousand men, were beaten off from the poorly constructed works of Porto Ferrairo, which had a garrison of only fifteen hundred. In July of the same year, an English fleet, carrying five hundred and two guns, attacked the French land battery of Algesiros, of only twelve guns, and was compelled to retreat with great loss. In 1803, the English garrison of Diamond Rock, near Port Royal Bay, with only one hundred men and fifteen guns, repelled, without the loss of a single man, a French squadron of two seventy-fours, a frigate and a brig, assisted by a land attack of two hundred troops. The French lost fifty men. In 1806, a French battery on Cape Licosa, of only one gun and a garrison of twenty-five men, resisted, without the loss of a man, the attack of a British eighty-gun ship and two frigates, carrying in all over o
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
America. There is only one of the divisions of the Union in regard to which France can have, in certain events, any more extended rights and duties. It is Louisiana as it geographically existed when it was ceded by us to the United States in 1803. The treaty of cession guaranteed to the French colonists and their descendants the enjoyment of their property and of their civil and religious rights. The vast and rich territory of Louisiana has formed since then, besides the State itself of labama and Wisconsin and the Territories of Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas. Every time that one of these has had to be organized or admitted to the Confederation, the slave proprietors have invoked their rights guaranteed to them by the treaty of 1803. The right of Arkansas, founded on this argument, was recognized by John Quincy Adams himself in 1836. The Governor of Nebraska invoked the same argument in vetoing the bill to prohibit the introduction of slaves into the Territory, and this doc
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