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lley, and all the privileges of day scholars, Spanish, German and Italian extra, three hundred dollars a year. Quoted from year book. Names of the pupils enrolled in these schools have always been and are found among the literary people of the town, thus showing an influence that has been carried down through generations. Free public schools were founded in Medford in 1670; in 1776 the people voted that the master instruct girls for two hours after the boys are dismissed, but not until 1834 was it decreed that the girls shall enjoy equal privileges therein with the boys throughout the year. This may have been one reason for the prevalence of private schools for girls and for boys and girls. This edict was not carried out, however, until the high school was organized in 1835, one of the first three free schools in the State for both sexes, devoted to the higher branches of learning. This school has proved an important factor in the intellectual life of Medford. Numbers of its
usiness at Medford, and continued therein some twenty years, when he retired. After him there were several other bakers in Medford, and the establishing of the business in 1825 by Mr. Withington seems to have been a survival of the fittest. The Medford invention of Mr. Francis seems not to have suffered in any wise, under the Withington manufacture, and its fame became more extended and his product an article of export. A Medford traveller found Medford Crackers in the shops of London in 1834. In those days fagots were principally used to heat the ovens. They were furnished by the farmers and others who cleared land. They were mostly of birch sprouts, which, bundled and withe bound, brought two cents a bunch, and made a brisk fire. After the third oven was built, trash wood, in four-foot lengths, was used, and still later, coal. A bulky load of fagots, hauled by a yoke of oxen guided by the goad in the hand of a farmer lad in a long blue frock, would be a novelty in Medford
not admit reflection of The Fewtrell through the arch, the lock has since been built, and the Carlton house, seen over the other arch, is but recently removed. In the upper left is the old Wear bridge, at the farther end of High street. The overhanging willows and shallop are at the site of the Woods dam and tide-mill, at one time famous in Medford boating annals. Beneath this bridge the tides surged swiftly to and fro. The lower left view shows the Lowell railroad embankment, built in 1834, across the marshland of Charlestown (now Somerville) on the right, looking down stream. The lines of the river bank are here much changed, but the stone arch remains, embedded in the newer one of concrete, built in 1906. The upper right-hand view is Canal bridge, over which Boston avenue was built in 1873. There were four spans, in all one hundred and thirty-four feet, the length of the first canal aqueduct, which was here built in 1802. Renewed in 1827, on the old abutments and on thr
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., A Medford garden and the gardener's notes. (search)
22 first Passion flower in blossom October, 22, Soed the field of Rye Soed one bushel of rye one peck of Red top & 1/2 a peck of herds grass. March th 26, 1830 highest tide that ever knoun 1831 March 28 Wall Peach in blosson April 15 Grafted Some Cherry Stocks December th 7 Picked Rose in blossom out a doors October 27 1831 the Carpenters Finished the shingled of the buildings &c 1832 August 20 Soed turnips in the field Sept 14 1832 first frost Glass 32 August th 4 1834 Soed the buckwheat Sept 29 1834 had the first frost in the Garden very heavy May 21st 1836 Quince tree in Blossom June 27 Planted Some Sweet Corn May 31 1837 Quince tree in Blossom List of Crisanithum for 1838 No I White No II Yallow No III Buff These two are from the second book— November 28, 1826 Mr. Bigelow Sot Sail for Giberalter Nov. 5 1831 began to take care of Mrs. Grays horses in the morning. In this book were kept private accounts, money receive
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., The Medford library building. (search)
was near the close of his active career that he erected this house, which was in some respects superior to any in town. His son Thatcher had already purchased the estate across and further up High street (in 1832) when the elder Magoun purchased of Nathaniel Bishop, on October 5, 1833, a certain piece of land with a dwelling house, having a frontage on High street of seven rods and twenty-two links, to land of Widow Gray. The record of Medford ships shows that he built his last ships in 1834 and 1835, one in each year, and that after 1835 the building at the Magoun ship-yard was by others. It would appear that the mansion-house was commenced at about the time of his retirement, about 1835. Facing page 357 in Brooks' History of Medford (1855) is a steel engraving by F. T. Stuart, showing the house and stable, with (presumably) the owner in his carriage driving out across the sidewalk. Two pieces of statuary, and large vases, adorn the ample grounds. An iron fence surmounts t
The Medford Syren. Among the interesting reminders of busy times in Medford is the rigged model of the clipper ship Syren (the 449th in the list and the first of those built in the year 1851, and in the yard of Sprague and James) which may be seen at the Historical Building. Within two years there has come to the Society a photograph of the Syren lying at a wharf; also from Mr. Shepherd Brooks a photograph of the Ellen Brooks, 480 tons, built by George Fuller for R. D. Shepherd in 1834, the 197th in the list of Medford-built ships. These are especially interesting. The Syren is given as 1,050 tons in the list in Brooks' history. In 1851 Frederic Gleason of Boston began the weekly publication of Gleason's Pictorial, probably the first of its kind. Its illustrations were wood cuts, as it was long before the modern half-tone process. An examination of its pages is well worth making, and therein we find one of the Syren and reproduce here the text. Vol I, p. 149, (July 5,
other committee to attend the General Court and take means to prevent the said canal's passage through the turnpike, but not to appear with counsel. As Benjamin Hall was a prominent shareholder and corporator in all three enterprises, the above seems a little strange, but perhaps it was only a show of resistance. The turnpike records contain but two other allusions to the canal: July 6, 1807. Voted to allow Peter Tufts, Junior account $7.50 for surveying bason of canal Feb 10 1834 Voted That the Proprietors of the Medford Branch Canal & Locks be notified to remove the piece of timber from off the top of the bridge over the said canal in the middle of the said turnpike road, it being an inconvenience and an obstruction to the public travel on said turnpike road; also to make their bridge wider and repair the causeway on each side thereof according to law. Abner Bartlett, esquire, was then the clerk and his entry is followed by Seved a copy on Mr Stearns The
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Mr. Stetson's notes on information wanted. (search)
e 1739, made his stately garden walks at the Royall farm of gravel imported from England. I cannot quite believe this story. The colonel, though the father of a Tory, was no fool, and he must have seen the handsome and excellent red gravel of Medford a good while before he died, in 1739. In the foregoing lines is a lot of information given by no other writer, which is replete with interest. The Magoun place (or library building) was probably (see Register, Vol. XXII, No. 1) erected in 1834-5. Its frontage on High street is about equal with those enumerated B to G (inclusive), about two hundred feet, which latter limit is reached at the line between the Centre school and Telephone and Historical buildings. The cobbler's shop must have been just east of where Hillside avenue now is, but the hill has been more excavated since Mr. Stetson's boyhood observation. Aunt Polly's candy shop was probably well known to him and other Medford boys. He locates the tan yard as across the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., History of the Medford High School. (search)
asm, and ripe scholarship; and Deacon Galen James, the builder of more than threescore ships, a man renowned for benevolence, energy, perseverance, and practical common-sense. These men (and doubtless others as well), being convinced that those youth who hungered for education beyond the mere rudiments ought not to be banished from the parental hearth to obtain it, boldly declared their convictions in private circles and in the public business meetings of the town. At the March meeting in 1834 they secured a vote That the School Committee be directed so to arrange the town schools that the girls shall enjoy equal privileges therein with the boys through the year. Careful research has failed to reveal the nature of those privileges denied to the girls, the removal of which the town then and there resolved upon. One now living, who was then a teacher in town, does not, at this late day, recall any occasion for the vote; yet doubtless the occasion existed, or the vote would not ha
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28.,
Medford Square
in the early days. (search)
olished, making place for the new and imposing (?) passenger station. A large lumber yard, with its old tide mill and wharves, where the lumber schooners unloaded, was in evidence beyond. The mill and pond are no more, and we lose sight of Gravelly brook at Salem street, but it still flows underground to the river. With the building of ships up-stream came the construction of a new bridge with its teetering draw spans, and newer structures close beside the river. The town hall, built in 1834, was then the most important building. Planned by a noted architect and well built, it served its purpose long and well, passing through the vicissitudes of two fires, one moving and various alterations; and still remains in the memories of the people it served. Only last week it appeared in print to remind us of days agone. What a kaleidoscopic view would be presented, could we see a sketch of the first log cabin here erected, the old Tufts house and Porter's Royal Oak Tavern, the Porte