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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 262 262 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 188 188 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 79 79 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 65 65 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 51 51 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 35 35 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 28 28 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 21 21 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 18 18 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 17 17 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Fin De Siecle. (search)
remodelled with stucco coating. His next statement is, an eighth of a mile further east lived Miss Rebecca Brooks—Aunt Becky. Robert Caldwell lived in her house and carried on the farm, i.e., what he styled the Payson farm. The Fuller plan of 1854 shows the outline of this house, and also the one-hundred-foot barn in which was later the gymnasium of Mystic Hall Seminary. This was at the site of present Brentwood Court, and Aunt Becky's house was later the residence of Mrs. Smith, and one oister, Vol. XI, No. 3. He also stated that nearly opposite, Miss Brooks' brother Caleb lived on the site of present railway station. As he told this in 1903 and the present station was built in 1891, and this house is shown on the Fuller plan of 1854, it indicates some later changes. This was his only allusion to the railroad, which was opened in 1835, and whose first station house, Medford Gates, was on the east of the tracks, near High street. He mentioned next the house owned by Leonard
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
lf of the four-store block taken down, and the original Macy store moved next the old Usher house and Mr. Poole moved into it. The new stable building was made into two stores, with various rooms on second floor, and hall and ante-rooms on third, in which the Odd Fellows Lodge later found quarters. A. B. Morss established a printing office in the front room, and several parties made attempts at store-keeping. Thus far development had been east of the railroad, whose second station house, in 1854, was closely in the acute angle west of the tracks, where, until 1876, a flagman guarded the crossing. In July, 1875, an adventurer, McNeill, began the erection of the four-story red brick block on Harvard avenue, but before completing it left for parts unknown, leaving some to mourn their losses. Then the former land owner finished the same. In this were two stores and six five-room tenements. G. H. Spaulding & Co. opened a grocery and L. H. Lovering a market in December, 1875. A tw